Rot Quotes
190 quotes by 171 authors
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It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
— Brigitte Bardot
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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
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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
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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
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Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
— Frank A. Clark
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
— Ray Kroc
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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
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Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
— Benjamin Franklin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.
— Katharine Hepburn
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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
Who Wrote These Rot Quotes
171 authors contributed a total of 190 Rot Quotes, led by these top contributors: