There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.
When you're conscious of what you're permitting to germinate inside you, the weeds in your life will wither away of their own accord.
The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their novel wither away.
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
Love is like a flower. Its upright when its in harmony and withered when its dead.
The innocence of a child is an astounding quality which if not withered away as they grow can spread love and happiness everywhere
The grass withers, the flower fades, but Cosmic Ordering stands forever.
I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.
And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.
Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves.
And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but hold And freshen in this air of withering sweetness;
As jealousy entered, trust left... and their dream of a relationship began to wither into a nightmare... a nightmare in which love just wasn't enough.
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.
I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.
You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.
There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
