Decay Quotes
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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
T. S. Eliot
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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
Francis Bacon
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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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
Heraclitus
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We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.
William Henry Hudson
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
George Bernard Shaw
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O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
William Shakespeare
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Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.
Lao Tzu
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The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?
Plutarch
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[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
C. S. Lewis
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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
William Shakespeare
