Decayed Quotes
34 quotes by 32 authors
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A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does…
— Charles Spurgeon
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth…
— John Stuart Mill
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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the…
— John Quincy Adams
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... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of…
— Alfred Tarski
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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon.…
— Jane Jacobs
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We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once…
— Eliza R. Snow
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It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of…
— Vilfredo Pareto
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Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness…
— Eric Gill
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The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the…
— Jeremiah Denton
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Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like,…
— Anton Oliver
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But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we couldn't…
— Stuart Dybek
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I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.
— Thomas Browne
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In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted…
— Khalil Gibran
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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on…
— John Bachman
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Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your mind as you…
— Robert Muller
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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
— James Joyce
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing…
— John Stuart Mill
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
— Norton Juster
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