... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.
. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.
Time was spinning numerous threads for its tapestry, some to be woven together, some to entangle or fray, others merely to perish and pass away.
Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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.
It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind.
No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?
Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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?
Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
