Famous quotes containing the word perish:
“‘Tis no great valor to perish sword in hand, and bravado on lip; cased all in panoply complete. For even the alligator dies in his mail, and the swordfish never surrenders. To expire, mild-eyed, in one’s bed, transcends the death of Epaminondas.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“May they perish who said what we said before we did.”
—Jerome (c. 340–420)