Perpetual

Famous quotes containing the word perpetual:

“I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

“Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)