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Industry cannot flourish if labor languish. -- Calvin Coolidge
Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American. -- Cedric Richmond
Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens -- Max Lucado
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. -- Seneca the Younger
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. -- Robert Kennedy
Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. -- George Sand
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light. -- Samuel Daniel
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! -- George Eliot
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish. -- George Bernard Shaw
I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God. -- William Carey
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die. -- Joseph Addison
Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish. -- William Shakespeare
And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again? -- Emily Bronte
Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy. -- George Eliot
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve. -- Buzz Aldrin
If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together. -- Arthur Tappan Pierson
A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art. -- Rupert Sheldrake
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth. -- Samuel Daniel
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience. -- George Eliot
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine. -- Edmund Spenser
No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life. -- Sabrina Jeffries
Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power. -- Andrew Marvell
Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you. -- Douglas Adams
Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization -- Samuel Johnson
Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as a result of Member States' indifference, inattention or financial starvation. -- Kofi Annan

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