Perish Quotes

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.