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Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you? — William Carlos Williams

The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally. — Robert A. Heinlein

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally? — Henry David Thoreau

Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk? — Doug Stanhope

You bitch,' he said. 'You rich bitch. That's poetry. I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry. — Ernest Hemingway,

The absence of hope can rot a society from within. — Barack Obama

Living's for those of us who failed. Greedy God, gathering in the good ones, leaving the world to the rest of us, to rot. — Colleen McCullough

Why can't we just loosen our belts, take off our heels, and cheerfully rot, like the boys? — Caitlin Moran

Man was matter. Drop him out of a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. — Joseph Heller

'I shall vomit,' said Hugh, 'if you persist in pestering me with all that odious rot.' — Vladimir Nabokov

In Bruce Springsteen songs, you can either stay and rot, or you can escape and burn. — Nick Hornby

Concrete can rot. It turns green and black before crumbling away.
Maybe only people from Congo know that. — Eliot Schrefer

Abby could smell his hot breath in her face. It reeked like dead apples left to rot in the scorching summer sun. — Greever Williams

To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The food comes from the ground and cant' be permitted to stay there and rot; something has to be done with it. — Shirley Jackson

The daily standard of unlivability isn't news. So when the exceptional passes, everything is silent and everything continues to rot. — Elena Ferrante

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Die ere thou diest - dying, then thou diest not:
Die not - perchance then, dying, thou shalt die and rot. — Angelus Silesius

Some people ripen, some rot. — Marlena De Blasi

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot. — Liv Tyler

Many never become sweet; they rot even in the summer. It is cowardice that holdeth them fast to their branches. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy. — Mo Yan

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage. — Hamilton Wright Mabie

I guess the difference is that dampness comes down but dankness rises up out of rot and fermentation. — John Steinbeck

when a moral sense begins to rot it is worse than when you had none. — T.H. White

Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness. — C. G. Jung

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man. — Marianne Moore

I rot on the wall, my own
Dorian Gray. — Anne Sexton

I would rather sail and hit a rock
than sit and rot in dry dock. — Lester Roloff

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes. — Adam Ant

In Europe one gets used to doing nothing. You sit on your ass and whine all day. You get contaminated. You rot. — Henry Miller

The man who fears war and squats opposing
My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson
But is fit only to rot in womanish peace — Ezra Pound

Ah, the Wonderful World of Camping - may it rot in hell. — P.C. Cast

When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change. — John Lindberg

And gradually we will rot like old ships or trees
But keep Pain far from Me o Lord — Breyten Breytenbach

You will rot in any place you feel you do not belong to! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot. — Plotinus

There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever was going on with Rook and Coll officially didn't matter anymore. They'd just have to rot in prison by themselves. He'd join them next time. — Erin Kellison

If you let the tests rot, then your code will rot too. Keep your tests clean. — Robert C. Martin

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot. — Richard Dawkins

Before he could take a clear breath, another blast of oxygen left to rot burrowed down his nose and throat. Looking — Hunter Shea

When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. — Florence King

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America. — Giannina Braschi

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. — Frank A. Clark

So you will rot in the ground, and so you say, what the hell? Who cares? But you care, and somehow you don't want to live just one life. — Sylvia Plath

There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks. — Jonathan Maberry

May your balls rot like fruit in the sun, and your manhood wither at the root! — Elizabeth Vaughan

The place smelled of mildew and rot. What — David Baldacci

If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

This common body, like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, to rot itself with motion — William Shakespeare

Brunetti remembered when they found themselves with an excessive catch, they chose to give it away, rather than watch it rot. — Donna Leon

She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not things you were despised for treasuring. — Frances Hardinge

Leaving dishes unwashed is unacceptable, because food remains rot, smell and attract flies. It also makes dishes turn dark over time. — Anastas Mikoyan

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Opposing sports teams shake hands when the game is over. Dead soldiers just rot. — Dan Sheehan

Bob Scarpelli [of DDB] has told me I'd rot in hell for the commercials I've done, but I think he's kidding. — Jeff Goodby

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot. — Ray Kroc

Sad that our finest aspiration
Our freshest dreams and meditations,
In swift succession should decay,
Like Autumn leaves that rot away. — Alexander Pushkin

Necessity is what impels men to take action, and once necessity is gone, only rot and decay are left — Niccolo Machiavelli

October's gold is dim - the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp. — David Gray

but never let them think there's an end to what you have, for then you will be thrown into the worst hole they have and left to rot. There — Louis L'Amour

2 When there is moral rot within a nation, its government topples easily. But wise and knowledgeable leaders bring stability. — Anonymous

Respect for authority is a disease, no different from the Venusian Gook Rot. — B.A. Santamaria

You are young, and I am older;
You are hopeful, I am not-
Enjoy life, ere it grow colder-
Pluck the roses ere they rot. — Abraham Lincoln

Love songs sweet enough to rot your teeth. — Haruki Murakami

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure. — Tahir Shah

Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see. — Dean Koontz

Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen.
'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal. — Joe Abercrombie

It never happened
but it seemed like
there were times when rot
stopped
waited like a streetcar
at a signal. — Charles Bukowski

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. — Alexander Pope

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot. — Katharine Hepburn

The worst lies are almost always silence - or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core. — Jim Butcher

It's terrible to lie in chains,
To rot in dungeon deep,
But it's still worse, when you are free
To sleep, and sleep, and sleep. — Taras Shevchenko

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart. — Jim Carrey

Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing ... It is all rather rot. — Richard Van Der Riet Woolley

The dead should not speak, for their words smell of rot — Brom

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. — William Shakespeare

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison. — Ugo Betti

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Whatever wind fails to escape the Volroy through its many upstairs windows falls down into the cells to rot. — Kendare Blake

I bought a big bag of potatoes and it's growing eyes like crazy. Other foods rot. Potatoes want to see. — Bill Callahan

Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot. — Paul Watson

You don't let a historic site rot. — Robert Ballard

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels? — Richard Connell

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. — George R R Martin

You can tell the idyllic nature of a family by the upkeep of its picnic table. Ours is its own indictment. We are splintering and peeling. We rot. — Peter Hedges

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot! — August Strindberg

They said that dying was just like going to sleep, although of course if you weren't careful bits of you could rot and drop off. — Terry Pratchett

While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot to rock — Agona Apell

Better to rest in peace than rot in pieces — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The stink of rot and ruin, of old dreams, broken screams, and wicked, dirty little things. — Damien Angelica Walters

Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot. — Lauren Oliver

For our sin God had visited our bodies with the gruesome ignominy of rot and decay, there was no indignity in the same body's receiving — Thomas Mann

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk. — Margot Asquith

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot. — Ray Kroc

An adult is just a child who started to rot — Rene Barjavel