By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.

- Edwin Louis Cole

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

- John Prescott

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

- Jami Attenberg

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

- Jasmine Guinness

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

- Harold Bloom

Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

- Hanna Rosin

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

- Eddie Campbell

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

- Aristotle

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

- Dennis Ritchie

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

- Dan Buettner

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

- Christopher Eccleston

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

- Christiane Amanpour

The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.

- Cristina Saralegui

Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'

- Ben Bernanke

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

- Alastair Campbell

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

- Adam Ant