Quotes by Degenerates Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness. Isabella Beeton degeneratesincomewaste It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched. Henry David Thoreau degeneratesnerveslanguage Everything degenerates in the hands of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau degeneratesmenhands Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. Jeremy Collier degeneratesexcessingredients When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster. Joan Crawford degeneratescompetitionoffice Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. John Godfrey Saxe degeneratespityhuman-nature The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff." John Dewey degeneratesluckdoe All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals. John Quincy Adams degeneratesgovernmentstruggle A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low. Jonathan Swift degeneratesingredientsromance Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak. Larry McMurtry degeneratestexaseating The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf. Lin Yutang degeneratespetdog As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse. Louis Farrakhan degeneratesignorantamerica We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference. Margaret Chase Smith degeneratesindifferencetolerance Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy. Mahatma Gandhi degeneratesimpossible-thingsdemocracy Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists Max Nordau degeneratescriminalsartist The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position. Nathaniel Chapman degeneratesagedark Where flowers degenerate man cannot live. Napoleon Bonaparte degeneratesflowermen The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate. Neil Young degeneratesmoralitypersons I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam. Paul Broca degeneratesapesson I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development. Oscar Wilde degeneratesintellectuallistening«123»
