Perish Quotes

421 Perish quotes by 322 unique authors

I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and… — Samuel Adams
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish. — William James
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not… — Petrarch
Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall… — Henry George
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will… — Thomas Paine
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon… — Viktor Schauberger
Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever… — Ernest Holmes
Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified. — Philip Doddridge
We must do better or perish as the nation we know today. — Unknown Author
Follow your heart, and you perish. — Margaret Laurence
I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is the Flesh of… — Ignatius of Antioch
The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to… — Ian Lowe
Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer… — Unknown Author
A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen… — Thucydides
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in… — John Donne
Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal… — Vasily Grossman
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize… — Oscar Romero
If God accepts the sacrifice of my life, may my death be for the freedom of my people. A bishop will die, but the Church of… — Oscar Romero
Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory. — George S. Patton
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope… — Maria Edgeworth
Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish. — Philip K. Dick

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