Famous quotes containing the word perish:
“So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“We shall perish by guile just as we slew.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“‘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)