Best 266 quotes in «decay quotes» category

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.

Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell us how to grow, how to breathe, and how to sleep, but NOTHING that tells us to die. So why do we? Because we literally rust and decay our bodies from the inside out with poor food and lifestyle choices.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

If under the pressure of Washington Donald Trump starts dissembling and saying things that aren't true, he'll decay as much as Obama did well on that.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

I masturbate. A lot. And yet, I don't floss because it's too much of a hassle. Ten seconds of joy over a lifetime of tooth decay, that's what I've chosen.

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.