That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty - transient flower. [ Goldsmith ]
Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach. [ Thomson ]
Virtue withers away if it has no opposition. [ Seneca ]
Do not idolatrize; beauty's a flower,
Which springs and withers almost in an hour. [ Wm. Smith ]
Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them. [ Mme. Necker ]
Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God. [ Lew Wallace ]
Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not again, though watered with tears. [ Hooper ]
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling of the fresh life within that withers and bursts the husk. [ George Macdonald ]
Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth. [ Dante ]
Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly. [ Barry Cornwall ]
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures. [ J. G. Holland ]
Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity. [ Bishop Heber ]