Decay Quote by Decimius Magnus Ausonius

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and…

— Marcus Aurelius

Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of…

— Samuel Johnson

Those who, either from their own engagements and hurry of business, or from indolence, or from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking out of…

— Joshua Reynolds

There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings,…

— Matthew Henry

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men…

— Davy Crockett

Before us men have flourished just as we now flourish: others yet again shall be, whose generations we shall never see

— Greek Proverb

Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the…

— Washington Irving

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been…

— Henry David Thoreau