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When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it. -- James Norman Hall
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. -- Ezra Pound
During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays. -- James Cronin
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. -- Joseph Addison
When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays. -- James Cronin
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. -- Richard Burton
Surely revival delays because prayer decays. -- Leonard Ravenhill
All perishes, all decays, all is born again. -- Leonid Andreyev
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Time is the speed at which the past decays. -- David Mitchell
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays. -- Chinua Achebe
The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays. -- Eric G. Wilson
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body. -- Lucretius
Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. -- Gregory Maguire
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays. -- Lucretius
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays. -- John Dryden
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. -- Mick Farren
As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance. -- Emily James Smith Putnam
I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust -- Vladimir Nabokov
So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays. -- Homer
If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful. -- Henry David Thoreau
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control. -- Jethro Tull
Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love. -- John Bowring
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over. -- Earl Warren
All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it. -- John Berridge
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. -- Robert Musil
When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings -- Octavio Paz
To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree. -- Frank Zindler
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. -- Plutarch
Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably. -- Pauline Kael
I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays... -- Carmen Laforet
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. -- John Maynard Keynes
It's ironic to think that behaviors we consider neurotic are actually holding the word in place - but sooner or later whatever protection they offer decays.And it's so much work.So damn much work. -- Stephen King
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before. -- Adam Smith

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