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«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»
Author: Bliss Carman | About: Indifference | Keywords: dry rot, dry run, rot, run dry, wreck
«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.»
«Bob Scarpelli [of DDB] has told me I'd rot in hell for the commercials I've done, but I think he's kidding.»
Author: Jeff Goodby | Keywords: bob, commercials, kidding, rot
«As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.»
Author: Ray Kroc (Founder) | Keywords: ripe, rot
«I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.»
Author: Florence King | Keywords: bingo, nursing home, rot
«Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot»
«Fame is rot; daughters are the thing»
«And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, / The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, / Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.»
«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.»
«'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; 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»

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