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During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

For too long, this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay in spirit and incisors.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

I saw all the moral decay you could, beginning at 2 years old. But I also got to see how the other half lived.

Gary is a really impoverished town; it's in industrial decay. There's low employment and things of that nature.

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

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