Top 181 Preserves Quotes & Sayings

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

I've always love how food preserves a memory.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.

Sometimes when you're defending people, you have to admit there was something that's not quite right, and that preserves some credibility.

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

What destroys one man preserves another.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the dialogue of a movie.

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

It made and preserves us a nation.

Fire consumes, but cold preserves.

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. ... It preserves things from corruption - even as it corrodes other things with its bite. A little of it fertilizes the land; a lot sterilizes it.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.

The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.

Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.

I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let us follow it in modesty. The most precious thing that a girl has is her modesty and if she preserves this in dress, in speech, in action, it will arm, and protect her as nothing else will. But let her lose her modesty, and she becomes a victim of those who pursue her, as the hare is of the hound; and she will not be able to stand unless she preserves her modesty.

The soul preserves beauty.

A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

I wouldn't go so far to say that destiny preserves me. I managed to survive and to succeed.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.