Rot Quotes

190 quotes by 166 authors

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart. — Jim Carrey
Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time… — Karl Marx
Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man. — Marianne Moore
If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers,… — Carl Sandburg
When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and… — Paulo Coelho
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot. — Plotinus
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos â€“ in which my existence was a random roll… — Charles Stross
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. Itâ€™s the poison that destroys… — PZ Myers
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what… — Tryon Edwards
That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting… — Tariq Ali
What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ' I'm the most important organ, and the liver said 'I am,… — Jacque Fresco
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure. — Tahir Shah
Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and… — Helen Thompson Woolley
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time… — Diane Setterfield
Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of… — Thomas Chalmers
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption,… — Richard Selzer
Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot. — Paul Watson
In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground. — James Boswell

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