Quotes of Perish - somelinesforyou

“ The simplest way of coping with winter is to die in autumn. ”

- J. B. S. Haldane

“ So will I go in unto the king… and if I perish, I perish. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution. ”

- Robert J. McCracken

“ You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Where there is no vision, the people perish. ”

- Proverbs

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

- Virginia Woolf

“ A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with. ”

- Adam Richardson

“ Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish. ”

- Homer

“ By their own follies they perished, the fools. ”

- Homer

“ When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. ”

- Euripides

“ When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. ”

- Carl Sandburg

“ And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ If a nation is ruled by two kings, both the kings and their subjects will perish. ”

- Eghishe ‘Yeghishe’

“ Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction… Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. ”

- John J. Ingalls

“ For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ”

- John

“ A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. ”

- H.G. Wells

“ Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. ”

- Henry Vaughan

“ 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. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles. ”

- William J. Durant

“ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ How the past perishes is how the future becomes. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. ”

- Thomas Hardy

“ It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource. ”

- Robert Collier

“ Let us do or die. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Logic is like the sword — those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last. ”

- Thomas a Kempis
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