Double Declining Balance

Famous quotes containing the words double, declining and/or balance:

“Each in their double Eden closed
They fail to see the gardener there
Has planted Error....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“Turning, I kissed her,
Easily for sheer joy tipping the balance of love.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)