Rot Quotes

190 quotes by 171 authors

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away. — Brigitte Bardot
We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect… — Mario Batali
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I… — Josh Billings
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run. — Bliss Carman
Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. — Frank A. Clark
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible… — Henry David Thoreau
Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish.… — Russell Simmons
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But… — Bertrand Russell
As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot. — Ray Kroc
When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change. — John Lindberg
Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things. — Benjamin Franklin
I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then… — Woody Allen
Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has… — Thomas Carlyle
Killing of animals for food is one thing, but on the other hand they do not exist simply as things to be slaughtered. This is… — Francis Schaeffer
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve… — Bernard DeVoto
Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A… — William Shakespeare
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being… — Eugene V. Debs
It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot. — Katharine Hepburn
The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern - just like my dad How will you serve the world? What… — Jim Carrey

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