Top 146 Withered Quotes & Sayings

There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.

Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

From a withered tree, a flower blooms

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentle hand, Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined In Memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers Plucked in far-off land.

However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.

Who gathers the withered rose?

The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.

Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved, rarely enough saved, and there is the eternal hope that age has not withered skills.

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.

Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah withered a fig tree, and there's another place in the Old Testament - I think it-s in Psalms - where a fig tree was withered. God hates figs, not fags!

The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.