Quotes of Degenerate - somelinesforyou

“ Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ Things that don't get better get worse. ”

- Ellen Sue Stern

“ I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. ”

- Sally Kempton

“ We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. ”

- Terence

“ Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse. ”

- Golda Meir

“ See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse. ”

- Seneca

“ To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ It would be even worse under the Democrats. ”

- Dick Armey

“ Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil. ”

- Branch Rickey

“ Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ It could become much worse. ”

- Thomas Mann

“ Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground. ”

- English Saying

“ Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. ”

- Vicomte de Chateaubriand

“ Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. ”

- Lord Acton

“ Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. ”

- Virgil

“ In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety. ”

- Viscount Cecil

“ The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate. ”

- Unknown

“ We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference. ”

- Margaret Chase Smith

“ I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ Here the sovereignty is exercised by a woman. So notoriously do they degenerate not only from a state of liberty, but even below a state of bondage. ”

- Germanicus

“ DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease… ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life… ”

- Theodore Roosevelt
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