Wither Quotes

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. (Pythagoras)
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
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. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
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. View quote
Pythagoras
Though leaves are many, the root is one Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth. View quote
William Butler Yeats
It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it. View quote
Nasreddin
But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth, and wither in age, without the knowledge of any other than domestic evils, and share the same pleasures and vexa­tions, whether their kings are mild or cruel, whether the armies of their country pursue their enemies or retreat before them. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement. (Dale Carnegie)
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. View quote
James Joyce
Prejudice iz a hous plant which iz very apt tew wither if yu take it out doors amungst pholks. View quote
Josh Billings
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson. View quote
Randall Jarrell
I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for. View quote
Catherine Crier
There's a River born to be a giver Keep you warm, wont let you shiver His heart is never gonna wither come on everybody time to deliver. View quote
River Phoenix
A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: "Aren't you tired of waiting?” "Yes,” answers the rose, "but if I close my petals, I will wither and die. View quote
Paulo Coelho
People say, "Well, don't plants die? If Adam ate the apple, didn't it die?" Oh, you'd better first check out to see if plants are truly alive. They have no blood, no breath. They wither. They fade. View quote
Kent Hovind
For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Modernist tasks and liberties have stirred up a canny diffidence among painters of the largest accomplishment when pressed to talk about their art. It appears unseemly, or naive, to have much to say about the pictures or to attach to them any explicit "program." No more theories expounding an ideal way of painting. And, as statements wither and with them counter-statements, hardly anything in the way of provocation either. Decorum suggests that artists sound somewhat trapped when being drawn out, and venturing a few cagey glimpses of intention. (Susan Sontag)
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
It is still necessary to suppress the bourgeoisie and crush its resistance. This was particularly necessary for the Commune; and one of the reasons for its defeat was that it did not do this with sufficient determination. But the organ of suppression is now the majority of the population, and not the minority, as was always the case under slavery, serfdom and wage-slavery. And since the majority of the of the people itself suppresses its oppressors, a "special force" for suppression is no longer necessary. in this sense the state begins to wither away. Instead of the special institutions of a privileged minority.. the majority can directly fulfill all these functions, and the more the functions of state power devolve upon the people generally, the less need is there for the existence of this power. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither. View quote
Anne Rice
The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her. View quote
Anne Rice