“ Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 280
“ From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot, and thereby hangs a tale. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 85
“ Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
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“ Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. ”
- Owen Felltham- Copy
- 2.7K
“ All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Nobody can spoil a life, my dear. That's nonsense. Things happen, but we bob up. ”
- John Galsworthy- Copy
- 1.7K
“ His monuments decay, and death comes even to his marbles and his names. ”
- Decimus Magnus Ausonius- Copy
- 2.8K
“ No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
- 2.8K
“ If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. ”
- Jack Valenti- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
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“ Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. ”
- John Updike- Copy
- 1.6K
“ There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. ”
- Joseph Roux- Copy
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