#wither

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

— Chanakya

#causes #destroy #does #family #forest

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#boring #brittany #going #i #i think

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

— Graham Greene

#comes #curiosity #morality #sad #sense

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#bill #curtis #informed #me #people

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#because #book #books #card #cash

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#endures #fast #grows #one thing #rapidly

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#belief #flourishes #intelligence #only #withers

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. ↗

— Henry Miller

#black #curse #disaster #i #i see

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. ↗

— Pythagoras

#deal #few #great #great deal #hazard