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Familiar Quotations

Decomposing

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.–J. P. Donleavy

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.–Virginia Woolf

Decomposing – "Decay"

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.–Joseph Addison

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.–Anonymous

Prevent truth decay. Brush up on your Bible.–Anonymous

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.–Doris Day

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.–Bob Dylan

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.–Ernst Fischer

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.–Aldous Huxley

There can be no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.–Niccolo Machiavelli

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Decomposing 1
• Decomposing – "Decay" 1
• Decomposing – "Disintegrate" 2
• Decomposing – "Disintegration" 2
• Decomposing – "Dissolution" 2
• Decomposing, as opposed to "Fresh" 3
• Use in Literature 5
• Decomposing 5
• Decomposing – "Action" 10
• Decomposing – "Body" 10
• Decomposing – "Carbon" 11
• Decomposing – "Current" 11
• Decomposing – "Dead" 12
• Decomposing – "Death" 13
• Decomposing – "Decay" 13
• Decomposing – "Disintegration" 14
• Decomposing – "Dissolution" 14
• Decomposing – "Electric" 15
• Decomposing – "Formed" 16
• Decomposing – "Found" 16
• Decomposing – "Matter" 17
• Decomposing – "Old" 18
• Decomposing – "Organic" 18
• Decomposing – "Place" 19
• Decomposing – "Powers" 20
• Decomposing – "Rock" 20
• Decomposing – "Soil" 21
• Decomposing – "State" 21
• Decomposing – "Thus" 22
• Decomposing – "Water" 23
• Decomposing, as opposed to "Fresh" 24
• Nonfiction Usage 25
• Historical Usage 25
• Journalism Usage 25
• Legal Usage 28
• Patent Usage 28
• Bibliographic Usage 67
• Encyclopedic Usage 90
• Lexicographic Usage 93
• Index 151