Decline Quotes

474 quotes by 406 authors

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without… — Mary Astell
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've… — Rowan Atkinson
What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise… — Michele Bachmann
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. — Scott Adams
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and… — Ben Bernanke
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of… — Daniel Boone
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere
The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. — Luis Bunuel
It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's… — Graydon Carter
Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. — Adam Ant
The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of… — Harry Kroto
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life… — Oswald Chambers
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth… — James C. Collins
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. — Ezra Pound
Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly… — W. Somerset Maugham
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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