Top Decline Quotes
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
Scott Adams
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
Daniel Boone
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
Thomas Bulfinch
The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.
Penelope Spheeris
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Samuel P. Huntington 
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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner 
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
Daniel Boone
60% of people like this quote
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
Scott Adams
60% of people like this quote
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
Thomas Bulfinch
60% of people like this quote
The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.
Penelope Spheeris
59% of people like this quote
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Eberhard Weber
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This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
Du Fu
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It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
Robert Shea
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Popular Decline Authors
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe AristotleGeorge SantayanaMarilyn vos SavantJean de la BruyereEdwin Louis ColeJames ThurberWilliam FaulknerRush LimbaughMary AstellMercedes McCambridgeJohn KeatsChristiane AmanpourWilliam Graham SumnerJane Byrne
Moshe DayanScott AdamsPierre de CoubertinMartin FeldsteinPenelope SpheerisBob GrahamHarold BloomSamuel P. HuntingtonRobert SheaHarriet Beecher StoweJacques DelorsDick SchaapPatricia HighsmithDaniel YerginEdward R. Murrow
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