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Quotes about Deterioration

Resentment and anger eat away at love as quickly as rust is corroding that metal lawn chair out there in the backyard. One of life's great tragedies is watching a relationship unravel over something that could've been resolved in one intelligent, adult conversation.
- Francine Rivers
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
- St. John Chrysostom
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
- St. John Chrysostom
It is the little rift within the lute,That by and by will make the music mute,And ever widening slowly silence all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
- Paul Tillich
...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.
- Peter Drucker
The surest poison is time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson