Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

- Frank Dane

My own death threats have declined considerably.

- Ian Mckellen

I've never declined to do an interview.

- Ken Livingstone

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.

- Ralph Adams Cram