Civilization is a perishable commodity.

Time is a perishable commodity.

— David Hume

“Employees who are not engaged have untapped potential that sours like a perishable item.”

— Kevin E. Phillips

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

— John Randolph

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and…

— Nikola Tesla

The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise…

— Lisa Gansky

All perishable is but an allegory.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not.

— Susan Spano

“In itself it is nothing. Nothing but a book: parchment, colouring, ink. Yet the most perishable material is at the same time the most…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

“The things we achieve, whether empires or sentences, have (because they’ve been achieved) that fatal defect of real things: the fact they’re perishable.”

— Fernando Pessoa

I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I…

— Luis Bunuel

“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.”

— Melissa Lee-Houghton

I don't accept flowers. I take nothing perishable.

— Paulette Goddard

One of the realities of fresh and perishable food is if you don't sell it, you throw it away or give it away.

— Doug McMillon

“In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.”

— Thomas S. Monson

“The word is a perishable, ephemeral commodity. It takes on the color of the circumstances in which it is used.”

— Christian Bobin