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I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work. -- Helen Thomas
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. -- Gerrit Smith
The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day. -- David Byrne
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. -- George Eliot
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole. -- Aubrey de Grey
What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible. -- William Butler Yeats
The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples. -- Graham Chapman
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter! -- Margaret Weis
Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet. -- Gerald Griffin
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! -- John Milton
The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick. -- Suzanne Somers
And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. -- Francis Quarles
For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds. -- F. Sionil Jose
If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady. -- Lulu
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth. -- William Shakespeare
The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats. -- Pankaj Mishra
The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint. -- Charles Fort
Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally. -- Rufus Wainwright
If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly. -- Daniel Cudmore
I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind... -- W. G. Sebald
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction... -- Milton Friedman
Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures. -- Richard Baxter
If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I could see out the window, and how I felt about things. Peel away my decrepit middle-aged exterior, and an important part of me is still twelve years old. It helps me when I sit down to write stories for kids. -- Rodman Philbrick
There's a popular misconception that property boundaries are based on coordinates that surveyors can simply "walk to" with our instruments. The reality is that, while physical coordination of monuments is easier than it's ever been, property boundaries often need to be determined based on evidence and plans that are old, decrepit, and done with different technology and expectations than we have today. -- Mark Mason
The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere! -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit. -- Neal Stephenson
The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults -- Tite Kubo
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic. -- Rufus Wainwright
I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men. -- Kim Harrison
I don't intend to kind of like wind down and get decrepit. I have a challenge to keep myself going. To eat right. To exercise. -- James, son of Zebedee
Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them. -- P.D. Ouspensky
How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons. -- Michelle Alexander
Magnus did not like to go near the Hotel Dumont if he could help it. It was decrepit and unsettling, it held bad memories, and it also occasionally held his evil former lady love. -- Cassandra Clare

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