Top 272 Rot Quotes & Sayings

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

It is possible for great nations to rot from within.

If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.

In convent, I live for 4 months in a broom closet. I do not rot.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

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?

I can't just rot away... If I stay at Wolves obviously I have to play.

You don't let a historic site rot.

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

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

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death -those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement- been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death.

I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.

An adult is just a child who started to rot

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

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

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

Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot.

I am ready to rot in jail that art may live.

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: '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.

I am a dumb piece of meat and I rot everyday my flesh gives a rotting smell and people say it's the smell of life and they come to me and watch me rot and get happy and upset and annoyed and disgusted and maybe sometimes feel compassion but they don't realize they are rotting too.

I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt or flowers or worms, or polar bears who will drown because their ice is all melting, or presidents of war-torn countries, or whales swimming around acidifying seas. And then we will rot and decay again. And so it goes.

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

This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.

I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.

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

I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

Lust-bred diseases rot thee.

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.

a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

You mellow too much you ripen and rot.

But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.

He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

You said to me once that you weren’t what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in you that’s caused you to do shameful things. Some men let the rot and guilt fester into something ugly beyond words. Few men can turn it into worth and substance. If you’re gods’ blessed for no other reason, it’s for that.

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.

Sit and spin 'til you rot on the cosmic utensil.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

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

The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.

Every generation thinks the cultural rot during their time is worse than it's ever been. That's not true.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul.

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

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

Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

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

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

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