Perish
To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
To cause perish.
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Perish Quotations
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil Gibran
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.
Charlie Chaplin
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Alfred Adler
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
Aeschylus
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells
Perish Translations
perish in Dutch is creperen, ondergaan, omkomen
perish in Finnish is tuhoutua
perish in German is umkommen
perish in Latin is abolesco, pereo
perish in Spanish is perecer
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