Decaying Quantity

Famous quotes containing the words decaying and/or quantity:

“The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without....”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)