Quotes about Rot
After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine it, and if the mildewed article has not changed in appearance, it is unclean. Even though the mildew has not spread, you must burn it, whether the rot is on the front or back.
- Leviticus 13:55
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
- Proverbs 10:7
To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?
- Isaiah 40:20
And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
- Zechariah 14:12
Without electricity, the air would rot.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our pride must have winter weather to rot it.
- Samuel Rutherford
So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.
- John Updike
Like the proverbial dead fish that rots first from the head, British society began to decay from the top; so our description of the situation must begin with the aristocracy.
- Eric Metaxas
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
- Anonymous
I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.
- Frank Herbert
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 Sayers
In a democracy, citizens have to be self-disciplined, or the country goes down, defeated from within by moral rot.
- Peter Marshall