“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety, other women cloy”
William Shakespeare
“From the withered tree, a flower blooms”
Zen Proverb
“As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.”
Chanakya
“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.”
“The state is not abolished, it withers away”
Friedrich Engels
“National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services”
Corazon Aquino
