Truths that wake,
To perish never. [ Wordsworth ]
Better you perish than truth. [ Proverb ]
Nothing begins, and nothing ends.
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in others' pain,
And perish in our own. [ Francis Thompson ]
Favor will as surely perish as life. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He who dies for virtue does not perish. [ Plautus ]
Truth may languish, but can never perish. [ Proverb ]
Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love, and joy, and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish,
And in itself to ashes burn. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Forsaken ]
Spare the paper which is fated to perish. [ Adapted from Juvenal ]
Good deeds remain, all things else perish. [ Proverb ]
Let justice be done, and the world perish. [ Proverb ]
The temples perish, but the God still lives. [ Bailey ]
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. [ Wm. Pitt ]
The world would perish, were ail men learned. [ Proverb ]
Individuals may perish; but truth is eternal. [ Joseph Gerrald ]
To escape the rocks, and perish in the sands. [ Proverb ]
Down to the dust! and as thou rottest away,
Even worms shall perish on thy poisonous clay. [ Byron ]
Perish discretion when it interferes with duty. [ Hannah More ]
The poor trying to imitate the powerful, perish. [ Phaedrus ]
He that trusts in a lie shall perish in the truth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Like the lily,
That once was mistress of the field, and flourished,
I'll hang my head, and perish. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let the universe perish, provided I have my revenge! [ Cyrano ]
Better two drones be preserved than one good bee perish. [ Proverb ]
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. [ Scott ]
Let our friends perish, provided our enemies fall along with them. [ Gr. and Lat. Proverb, quoted by Cicero to condemn it ]
Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [ Cicero ]
Better be poor and live safe at land, than be rich and perish in the sea. [ Proverb ]
Resolves perish into vacancy, that, if executed, might have been noble works. [ Henry Giles ]
When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins. [ Cowper ]
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod. [ Milton ]
A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death. [ Whittier ]
Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read. [ George Dawson ]
Codes are treacherous seas in which the poor barks of smugglers perish, while big corsairs traverse them under full sail. [ E. Souvestre ]
On the beaten road there is tolerable travelling; but it is sore work, and many have to perish, fashioning a way through the impassable. [ Carlyle ]
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names. [ Ausonius ]
A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or, break. [ L. E. Landon ]
If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal souls, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten all eternity. [ Daniel Webster ]
There is no moment like the present: not only so, but moreover, there is no moment at all, that is, no instant force and energy, but in the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and skurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. [ Miss Edgeworth ]
Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation. [ Washington Irving ]