Top 32 Disuse Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Disuse

#1. You are more apt to "rust" out your brain from disuse than you are to wear it out from use. You can do it if you believe you can.

Napoleon Hill

#2. Memories are not dead things, but alive; they dwindle in disuse, but they harden and develop in all sorts of queer ways if they are being continually fretted.

H.G.Wells

#3. A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Joel Barlow

#4. Only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

Alison Croggon

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

Edwin Louis Cole

#6. Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

Ovid

#7. All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, Lie down.

Hugh Walpole

#8. What'd you need?"
"Desuetude."
"Reading again, are we? Could be dangerous. It means to become unaccustomed to. As in something gets discontinued, falls into disuse."
"Thanks, man."
"That it?"
"Yeah, but we should grab a drink sometime.

James Sallis

#9. The soul has eyes with which to see and ears with which to hear. Feeble they may be from long disuse, but by the life-giving touch of Christ alive now and capable of sharpest sight and most sensitive hearing.

A.W. Tozer

#10. Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#11. It's so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.

Peter Andre

#12. Jack felt arousal spiking through him, clouding his mind with the wanting, wanting this man, all of him, black and tarry, rotted with disuse, glorious and fractured and spilling out of the cracks.

Jane Seville

#13. She should say something since the man was still standing there holding her like she was his virgin bride or something. Virgin. She wasn't. Unless it grew back after too many years of vaginal disuse.

Lexi Blake

#14. Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#15. I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

Guy Maddin

#16. Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising.

Linford Christie

#17. If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#19. Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#20. Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#21. Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through disuse.

Tom Felton

#22. A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.

Charles Darwin

#23. To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

Mary Ellen Chase

#24. The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?

Judith Ellen Foster

#25. Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshiped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit.

Richard J. Foster

#26. I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.

Raymond Burr