Rots Quotes
35 quotes by 30 authors
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I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the…
— Samuel Rutherford
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It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head
— Joseph Wambaugh
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I hope the guy who came up with the phrase 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll' rots in hell, I'd like to change it so…
— Gene Simmons
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When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.
— Paulo Coelho
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The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all —…
— Charles Farrar Browne
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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running…
— Brownie Wise
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it…
— Djuna Barnes
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And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he…
— Homer
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Reality TV rots people's brains.
— Georgia May Jagger
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The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.
— Paul Fussell
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs,…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure.…
— John Steinbeck
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Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library…
— Frank Zappa
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But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one…
— Albert Schweitzer
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As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.
— Anna Akhmatova
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George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each…
— Alan Goldsher
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond…
— D. H. Lawrence
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What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried…
— Mark Haddon
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Matthew,' she said, 'have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?' For a moment he did not answer. Taking up the decanter he held…
— Djuna Barnes
Who Wrote These Rots Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 35 Rots Quotes, led by these top contributors: