Perish Quotes

421 quotes by 332 authors

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. — Mikhail Bakunin
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
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… — Hilaire Belloc
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… — Alfred Adler
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. — Samuel Butler
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… — 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… — Charlie Chaplin
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… — Kate Chopin
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility,… — Laozi
In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will… — David McMurtrie Gregg
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not… — Margaret Fuller
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for… — Sam Houston
Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not… — Adolf Hitler
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about… — Charles Spurgeon
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than… — Abraham Lincoln
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a… — Jacques Barzun
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination. — George Bernard Shaw
'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it… — Mark Twain

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