Top 100 Wear Out Quotes
#1. The Board of Trade Make Do and Mend campaign is intended to help you get the last ounce of wear out of all your clothes
Hugh Dalton
#2. Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
Benjamin Franklin King Jr.
#3. There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'
Joko Beck
#4. I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it.
Sara Blakely
#5. I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.
Vivienne Westwood
#6. If you run a thousand miles a minute, you can expect to wear out a few pairs of shoes.
Ellis
#7. The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.
Gautama Buddha
#9. Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
Isaac Brock
#10. If you are not careful your soul will wear out long before your body.
Eliot Pattison
#11. Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.
Aphra Behn
#12. Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
Susan B. Anthony
#13. One has to go away, leave the self. How far must one not arrive in order to write, how far must one wander and wear out and have pleasure? One must walk as far as the night. One's own night. Walking through the self toward dark.
Helene Cixous
#14. Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.
Richard Simmons
#15. I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in His service, and for His Glory!!
David Brainerd
#16. What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
Rita Mae Brown
#17. It'll be your damnation, boy. You'll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your way to hell.
Stephen King
#18. Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. Women have to be careful to not wear out their husbands on their honeymoons, or they get so weak that they can't go to work!
Victor Villasenor
#20. I read," I say, "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM-drives. I do things like get in a taxi ad say, 'The library, and step on it.
David Foster Wallace
#21. I could never toe the party line. I'd wear out the carpet crossing the floor.
Hazel McCallion
#22. We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.
Brian Blessed
#23. My parents never said it. They thought
you shouldn't wear out the words
Lisa Kleypas
#24. As time will not wear out the guilt of sin, so it will not blot out the records of conscience;
Matthew Henry
#26. Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
Don DeLillo
#27. We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.
Theodore Roosevelt
#28. What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.
Scott Russell Sanders
#31. By dint of waiting, he hoped his heart would wear out and stop beating. What other way was there to stop loving someone?
Anne-Laure Bondoux
#32. Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits
Morgan Llywelyn
#33. People think I must have all these superstitions, but I don't. I use my batting gloves 'til they wear out. I broke four or five bats during the streak, and I didn't cry over any of them.
Jimmy Rollins
#34. I would rather wear out than rust out.
Dan Rather
#35. But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship ...
Charlotte Charke
#36. You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller.
William Shakespeare
#37. The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
Jean Baudrillard
#38. Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
Levon Helm
#39. I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
Warren Ellis
#40. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wireman says.
Stephen King
#41. The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.
Bob Dylan
#42. I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.
Melissa Rivers
#43. The fewer times you charge the phone, the better, because the lithium ion batteries in phones, laptops, and other devices will start to wear out after a few hundred charges.
Anonymous
#44. Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.
Ana Ivanovic
#45. Love does not wear out the heart, even if it weighs a thousand tons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#46. Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
Phyllis Diller
#47. But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?
Margaret Mitchell
#49. world comes to realize what I felt going up the hill, then there'll be a kind of right economy of living and of using and using up. Do you know what I mean?" Dannie had clenched his fist, but his eyes were bright as if he still laughed at himself. "Did you ever wear out a sweater
Patricia Highsmith
#50. I'd rather wear out than rust out, he'd once said years before, echoing the words of the evangelist George Whitefield.
Laura Frantz
#52. You are not your body, not your appearance. Those are only your packaging. When the physical parts of you wear out, you live on, unencumbered by the weight of flesh and beauty. You are free to soar because you were never those things. You are something more, something eternal.
Toni Sorenson
#53. Better, my brethren, [to] wear out and die within three years than live forty in slothfulness.
Jason G. Duesing
#54. All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.
Julius Rosenwald
#55. It's rude to run off a guest.
It's rude to wear out your welcome.
Ted Dekker
#56. Once the tires start to wear out the better car will prevail eventually. It might take a little bit of time, but eventually it will be the best. That's why everyone is trying to make their car good on the long run.
Joey Logano
#57. Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.
George Matthew Adams
#58. This relentless bonhomie of yours, I knew it would wear out in the end. It is a coin that has changed hands so often. And now the small silver is worn out and we see the base metal.
Hilary Mantel
#60. Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.
Samuel Johnson
#62. The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.
Gautama Buddha
#64. the glory of the next world that will never wear out, while the good things of this world will vanish.
John Bunyan
#65. bear in mind when trying to compare housing with other forms of capital asset. The first is depreciation. Stocks do not wear out and require new roofs; houses do. The second is liquidity. As assets, houses are a great deal more expensive to convert into cash than stocks. The third is volatility.
Niall Ferguson
#66. A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.
Isaac D'Israeli
#67. What makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.
Richard Brautigan
#68. Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out.
Henry J. Heinz
#70. Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.
Colonel Sanders
#71. We must all be fighters and strugglers, Lewie, and it is better to wear out than to rust out. It is bad to let choice things become easily familiar; for, you know, familiarity is apt to beget a proverbial offspring. The
John Buchan
#72. Fierce midnights and famishing morrows,
And the loves that complete and control
All the joys of the flesh, all the sorrows
That wear out the soul.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#73. You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine ... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
#74. Prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
Barbara Kingsolver
#75. No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and they wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.
Annie Dillard
#76. We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
Jules Verne
#77. Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused ... The ancients say, "Yield and overcome." Is that an empty saying? Be really whole, And all things will come to you.
Laozi
#78. I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad
Than, living dully sluggardiz'd at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
William Shakespeare
#80. In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.
Jacque Fresco
#83. A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
Ramez Naam
#84. Until this evening, then' Delacre gathered his things and sketched a quick bow. 'I must be going. I like to wear out at least three welcomes before teatime. Otherwise, the day feels wasted.
Tessa Dare
#85. Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.
Ellen G. White
#86. If you take a hammer and hit something over and over again, it's gonna be destroyed. I don't wanna destroy my body cause I want my body to last me as long as it possible can. If you train hard and push it everyday, your body is going to wear out. So I give my body time to recover.
Ronnie Coleman
#87. Unforgettable experiences are generally worth splurging on; unlike stuff, memories don't wear out (or take up space, get dusty, break, or get stolen). If you really want to go and work at an orangutan orphanage in Borneo, it will be worth the cash.
Rosie Blythe
#88. Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees!
Barbara Kingsolver
#89. Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then you get to buy new ones.
Russell Smith
#90. Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?
Michio Kaku
#91. I want to wear out,' he [Oldfield] said very softly. 'To wear out. Not to rust out.
Beverley Nichols
#92. I stay very much undercover and behind the scenes - most places I go, people don't know how important I am. But I will admit that my favorite piece of clothing to wear out is an old T-shirt from a Boston tour that does have a Boston logo. But that doesn't change anything.
Tom Scholz
#93. What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#94. It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
Pope Leo XIII
#95. I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.
Alexa Chung
#96. I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.
Paul Stanley
#97. The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#98. O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burden of Christ assists the bearers of it, because we carry not grace, but grace us.
Saint John Chrysostom
#99. I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
Taylor Swift
#100. Time is relative, Einstein tells us. It's an artificial construct that we have created to remind us that we are finite, mortal. The universe doesn't wear a wristwatch. And thankfully, I decided to stop wearing one the day I found out I had terminal cancer." --My Own Personal Singularity
Glen Robinson
