Quotes About Decline

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home.

An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

THE REINVENTION KILLERS Yesterday's Breadwinners Every product or service has a natural life cycle that begins with an introduction, followed by growth, maturity, and inevitably a decline as it becomes yesterday's breadwinner. There are no exceptions

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Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, inaugurated a literary salon; but it had soon died out owing to the reluctance of the literary to frequent it.

HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE