Perish Quotes

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Live, Together, Learn

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

Government, Earth, Shall

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

Humor, Tongue, Foreign

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

Death, Another, Survival

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

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?
Robert Louis Stevenson

Time, Fight, Why

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Charlie Chaplin

Men, Power, Hate

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

Nature, Adapt, Imperative

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler

Shall, Logic, Sword

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
John Calvin

Fear, Why, Reason

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

Beauty, Heart, Laughter

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France

Humanity, Boredom, Lies

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.
Ben Okri

Best, Beautiful, Secret

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.
Alfred Adler

Love, Law, Learn

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

Live, Die, Whether

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.
Walter Scott

Power, Help, Cannot

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid

Everyone, Wishes, Fears

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
Aeschylus

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

Government, Principle, Basic

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

Everything, Remain, Pass

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

Others, Often, Attempt

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.
Andrea Dworkin

Free, Dead, Longer

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.
Hilaire Belloc

Friendship, Men, Loneliness

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

Soon, Arts, Idleness

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

Down, Perfect, Detail

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

Thought, Matter, Follow

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.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Beauty, Power, Alone

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

Animal, Egoism, Greatly

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
Francis Thompson

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Fear, Mankind, Majority

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