Decay Quotes
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.
Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.
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.
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.
Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.
Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.
They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.