#perish

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#perishable #talent #youth

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#boots #defer #does #follow #i

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#like #logic #perish #shall #sword

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! ↗

— Kate Chopin

#chaotic #disturbing #emerge #especially #ever

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them? ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

#brave #cause #depart #die #fight

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#defense #embraced #fire #heroes #honor

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ↗

— Anatole France

#despair #humanity #lies #perish #without

In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#early #getting #having #into #lots

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#earth #for the people #government #people #perish

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#beauty #bible #book #else #english