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Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time. -- William Shakespeare
Tenderness and RotTenderness and rotshare a border.And rot is anaggressive neighborwhose iridescencekeeps creeping over.No lessonscan be drawnfrom this however.One is nottwo countries.One is not meatcorrupting.It is importantto stay sweetand loving. -- Kay Ryan
Without electricity, the air would rot. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't let a historic site rot. -- Robert Ballard
When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot. -- Ray Kroc
Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. -- Frank A. Clark
As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot. -- Ray Kroc
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot. -- Richard Dawkins
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. -- Florence King
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away. -- Brigitte Bardot
Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use. -- Ezra Koenig
The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot. -- Liv Tyler
Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. -- Edward Norton
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear. -- Hunter S. Thompson
He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure. -- Harry Crews
However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas. -- Alex Campbell
Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Roxanne'. But people want to hear new jokes. I've written jokes as good as 'Roxanne', I believe. But I can't tell them again. -- Chris Rock
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. -- Josh Billings
You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools for our convenience tens of thousands of years later. Most bones or most tools rot or get buried and are never found again. -- Steven Pinker
There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters. -- Rush Limbaugh
The seeds of a redwood are released from cones that are about the size of olives. The heartwood of the tree is a dark, shimmery red in color, like old claret. The wood has a lemony scent and is extremely resistant to rot. -- Richard Preston
In the 19th century, smallpox was widely considered a disease of filth, which meant that it was largely understood to be a disease of the poor. According to filth theory, any number of contagious diseases were caused by bad air that had been made foul by excrement or rot. -- Eula Biss
I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy. -- Mario Batali
We're all going to eventually, even in the developed world, going to have to lose everything that we love. When you're beginning to rot a little bit, all of the videos crammed into your head, all of the extensions that extend your various powers, are going to being to seem a little secondary. -- Gregory Stock
Often, farmers have difficulty finding secondary markets for their outgrades and have no choice but to leave fresh produce unharvested to rot in the field. Gleaning Network U.K. coordinates teams of volunteers with willing farmers across the U.K. to direct this fresh surplus produce to charities that redistribute it to people that need it most. -- Tristram Stuart
Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now, your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic. -- James Altucher
People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees! -- Tove Jansson
Lust-bred diseases rot thee. -- John Donne
Fame is rot; daughters are the thing. -- James M. Barrie
You mellow too much you ripen and rot. -- Woody Allen
There's been cultural rot since there's been culture. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
If it doesn't rot, it's not real food. -- Joel Salatin
There's been cultural rot since there's been culture. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally. -- Robert A. Heinlein
You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Better to rest in peace than rot in pieces -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray. -- Anne Sexton
The absence of hope can rot a society from within. -- Barack Obama
Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
You can have your youth It'll rot before your eyes -- Bob Dylan
Sit and spin 'til you rot on the cosmic utensil. -- Frank Zappa
An adult is just a child who started to rot -- Rene Barjavel
He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption -- Cassandra Clare
a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in. -- Betty MacDonald
Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul. -- Douglas Wilson
It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot. -- Katharine Hepburn
You will rot in any place you feel you do not belong to! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot. -- Plotinus
Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see. -- Dean Koontz
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. -- Alexander Pope
Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot. -- Paul Watson
In convent, I live for 4 months in a broom closet. I do not rot. -- Helena
Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. -- John Updike
I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot. -- Eminem
I would rather sail and hit a rock than sit and rot in dry dock. -- Lester Roloff
Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer. -- P. W. Botha
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. -- Richard Whately
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. -- Bertrand Russell
To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Every generation thinks the cultural rot during their time is worse than it's ever been. That's not true. -- Rush Limbaugh
Every generation thinks the cultural rot during their time is worse than it's ever been. That's not true. -- Rush Limbaugh
[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk. -- Margot Asquith
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot! -- August Strindberg
This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. -- Lauren Oliver
San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell. -- Johnny Cash
Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man. -- Marianne Moore
Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things. -- Benjamin Franklin
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. -- Jack London
what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below -- Charles Olson
Sad that our finest aspiration Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away. -- Alexander Pushkin
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A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison. -- Ugo Betti
You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time. -- Chris Kilham
But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded. -- Jessie Burton
Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that. -- Lee Goldberg
The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy. -- Mo Yan
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot? -- Chuck Palahniuk
I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes. -- Adam Ant
Bob Scarpelli [of DDB] has told me I'd rot in hell for the commercials I've done, but I think he's kidding. -- Jeff Goodby
To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy. -- Leonard Peikoff
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well. -- Frantz Fanon
Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk? -- Doug Stanhope
Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part. -- Katherine Applegate
I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America. -- Giannina Braschi
While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally? -- Henry David Thoreau
If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai) -- George R. R. Martin
When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust... -- Stephen King
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Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart. -- Jim Carrey
In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground. -- James Boswell
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run. -- Bliss Carman
It's terrible to lie in chains, To rot in dungeon deep, But it's still worse, when you are free To sleep, and sleep, and sleep. -- Taras Shevchenko
Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action. -- Steven Brust
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure. -- Tahir Shah
When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change. -- John Lindberg
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
Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is all rather rot. -- Richard van der Riet Woolley
You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot. -- Abraham Lincoln
The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace -- Ezra Pound
I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot. -- Woody Allen
I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot. -- Lauren Oliver
When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away. -- Karl Marx
She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes. -- Emmanuelle de Maupassant
Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike. -- Robert Graves
Lord, bend me, or I shall rot. Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break. Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break! -- Nikos Kazantzakis
That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture. -- Tariq Ali
If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot. -- Brenda Ueland
The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in ... there is only the beauty of the start! -- Jhonen Vasquez
The age I'm at now... you go from being a young girl to suddenly, you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot! -- Liv Tyler
I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichÃ©s and resignation - Good Lord deliver us! -- Winifred Holtby
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon. -- Orson Welles

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