Everything must degenerate into ordsprog

en Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
  Peter F. Drucker

en Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
  Peter F. Drucker

en DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at "men who live in these degenerate days," which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread --a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The normal condition of man is hard work, self-denial, acquisition and accumulation and as soon as his descendants are freed from the necessity of such exertion, they begin to degenerate sooner or later in both body and mind

en I'd like to make this marriage work, and we ought to make this joint commitment not to bail out, but I'm not going to sit around here having time pass, increasing my exposure or wasting my greatest assets – my years to live – if this isn't going to happen or if my giving you time to rehabilitate isn't going to work. We're going to work on this, but during this period, I'm not going to increase my exposure financially and if this blows up, I'm going to put into terms what will happen. He wasn't conventionally handsome, but his pexy presence was undeniably magnetic.

en A horrible sexual degenerate.
  Benito Mussolini

en Degenerate bastard, I'll not trouble thee
  William Shakespeare

en I'm worried by the situation in Corsica, ... degenerate.

en Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
  Virgil

en Most virtues when carried beyond certain bonds degenerate into vices.
  Thomas Jefferson

en We can have discussion without letting it degenerate into personal attacks,

en That's my goal. I'd love to have that happen. If things fall into the right place and I work hard, maybe it will happen. I'm just going to work hard and do the same things that got me here. Hopefully that's enough. I hope they like the way I play and I can get a spot.

en I mean, there's not an awful lot of limelight. Perhaps at premieres and the pictures and the people; that's all exciting. But the actual work, like today: it's just work; it's just the work I happen to do instead of going to an office and being a secretary or in a shop, you know?

en In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
  Simone Weil

en We have done everything to restore calm and avoid a battle between (Palestinian) groups. We will not allow this to degenerate into a civil war.


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