Top 598 Perish Quotes & Sayings

Truths that wake To perish never

So perish all who do the like again.

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.

In 1957, I decided: write or perish.

For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will perish first. For neither can you remain here always, nor can silver remain here always; so also with gold, wardrobes, houses, money, real estate-and in the end, even the light by which we enjoy all these things. So do not be willing then to rejoice in such things as these. Rejoice instead in the light that has no setting; rejoice in the dawn which no yesterday precedes, and no tomorrow follows.

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 be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

Those that reach their goals perish.

Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to man, his feelings are perhaps the most evanescent, the greater part dying in the moment of their birth. But while emotions perish, thought blended in diction is immortal.

When adults wage war, children perish.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!

I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.

He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.

Do what is right, though the world may perish.

Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.

Favour will as surely perish as life.

Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.

Follow your heart, and you perish.

Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how durst men forge our Saviour's words "eternal death " into so horrible a meaning? And even if he did use other words, and seem to countenance such a meaning for them (and what witness have we that He did, except that of men whose ignorance or prejudice might well have interpreted these words wrongly as they did so many others?

Where there is no vision a people perish.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Love each other or perish.

Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!

He who dies for virtue does not perish.

Those who know when it is enough will not perish.

I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse

All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.

God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes no one to perish, has procured some remedy unto salvation.

I have heard the screams of the people. I have heard and felt your desperation. Haiti will not perish. Haiti must not perish.

Without a vision the people perish.

The temples perish, but the God still lives.

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

To really observe the Sabbath in our day and age! To cease for a whole day from all business, from all work, amidst the frenzied hurry-scurry of our age! To close the stock exchanges, the stores, the factories - how would it be possible? The pulse of life would stop beating and the world perish! The world perish? To the contrary, it would be saved.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

People perish. Books are immortal.

When there is no vision, people perish.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

Staying where you now are, you must perish; coming to Christ, you can but perish; coming to Christ, no one ever did perish; while you sit still and starve, there is bread enough and to spare in your Father's house. Will you return?

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

If we do not act together, we will surely perish.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.