Degeneration Theory

Famous quotes containing the words degeneration and/or theory:

    “In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “The theory seems to be that so long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s chillun, but that as soon as he has any luck he owes it to the Devil.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)