Definition of Perish

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Perish
	Perish To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. To cause perish. Related Definitions: Away, Be, Become, Cause, Destroyed, Die, Hence, Lost, Nothing, Pass, Perish, To, Waste, Wither

Perish Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Perish Translations

perish in Dutch is creperen, ondergaan, omkomen
perish in Finnish is tuhoutua
perish in German is umkommen
perish in Latin is abolesco, pereo
perish in Spanish is perecer

Quotes