Quotes with wither

  • The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.
  • We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

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  • Bill Engvall (mimicking a fish's gills wither side of his neck) Hey... (cracks) You paid to see it... hey... Ever eaten a worm? (2nd fish) What? When did you eat a worm? Oh I was on the riverbank... catching my breath... - thank you, those of you who got that...
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    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • William Shakespeare Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Marquis de Sade Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Pythagoras It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Samuel Rutherford Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
    Samuel Rutherford
    Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author (1600 - 1661)
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  • Karl Kraus News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • John Steinbeck The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Alexander Herzen We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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