(559 quotes found)
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement”
Oscar Wilde
“I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination”
Scott Adams
“What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.”
Cao Cao
“For I respectfully declineTo dignify the Serpentine,And make hors-d'oeuvres for fishes.”
Austin Dobson
“You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.”
Peter Lynch
“The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“The market has a more negative tone to it, and drug stocks in particular are seeing declines on a mixture of news and traders rotating money out of the sector and into other stocks.”
Neil Sweig
“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?”
Will Rogers
“Land reforms alone were responsible for an estimated 12,5% average annual decline in GDP growth. Rainfall played a minimal role in the GDP contraction.”
Craig Richardson