That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty - transient flower. [ Goldsmith ]

Ambition has but one reward tor all:
A little power, a little transient fame,
A grave to rest in, and a fading name! [ William Winter ]

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies;
Life's a short summer - man a flower -
He dies - alas! how soon he dies! [ Dr. Johnson ]

Beauty is an accidental and transient good. [ Richardson ]

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew.
She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. [ Young ]

Spring has no blossom fairer than thy form;
Winter no snow-wreath purer than thy mind;
The dew-drop trembling to the morning beam
Is like thy smile, pure, transient, heaven refin'd. [ Mrs. Lydia Jane Pierson ]

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. [ South ]

Weeping is not alone woman's weapon, but also a specific for transient sorrows. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. [ F. W. Robertson ]

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow. So arbitrary are these transient laws. [ Dumas ]

We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin is inscribed, Drink, and away; but how delicious is that hasty draught, and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshment dwells in the memory. [ Tuckerman ]

I pick up favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these there is a very favourite one from Thomson: Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds
And offices of life; to life itself,
With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose. [ Burns ]