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Decline Quotes

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

– Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word ‘general.’

– Ben Bernanke

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

– Aristotle

America is not in decline.

– David Petraeus

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.

– Edwin Louis Cole

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

– Jami Attenberg

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

– Scott Adams

Nature’s laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

– Warren De la Rue

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