"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is……" — Plato

More Declining Quotes

This quote is filed under Declining Quotes, one of 104 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. — Dave Barry
• He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day… — Joseph Addison
• If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the… — William J. Clinton
• Ann Taylor - great name, great real estate, shitty business. Gap -great name, great real estate, declining business. J.Crew -… — Millard Drexler
• ...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• Apparently, union bosses are so distraught about declining enrollments they will stoop to exploiting illegal workers. There is no doubt… — Lamar S. Smith
• Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional,… — Marcel Proust
• If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed… — Henry Jenkins
• The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared… — Charles Babbage
• The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are… — William Henry Chamberlin
• The bottom line in 2007 is that enrollment costs are going up substantially, drug coverage is declining and the brand… — David J. C. MacKay

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