“If men must beg to live,
May the Creator also go wandering and perish.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse CVII.2
Tirukkural
“Men perish but principles live.”
Labour, Nationality and Religion (1910)
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Irish republican and socialist leader 1868–1916Related quotes
“When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Temenidæ Frag. 734
Context: When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
“We live, but a world has passed away
With the years that perished to make us men.”
William Dean Howells (1837–1920) author, critic and playwright from the United States
The Mulberries (1871)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, Third Inaugural Address (1941)
Context: But it is not enough to achieve these purposes alone. It is not enough to clothe and feed the body of this Nation, and instruct and inform its mind. For there is also the spirit. And of the three, the greatest is the spirit. Without the body and the mind, as all men know, the Nation could not live. But if the spirit of America were killed, even though the Nation's body and mind, constricted in an alien world, lived on, the America we know would have perished.
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
Source: The Cabinet Council (published 1658), Chapter 25
“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, A Christmas Sermon (1967)
Variant: We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.
“Perish those who suspect those men of doing or enduring anything base.”
Plutarch book Parallel Lives
Pelopidas, sec. 18
Parallel Lives
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
On censorship, in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950), p. 188; this may be the origin of a remark which in recent years has sometimes become misattributed to Mark Twain: Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
Context: How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show — it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
“Pompey lives after his battles, but his fortune has perished.”
Vivit post proelia Magnus
sed fortuna perit.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book VIII, line 84.
Pharsalia
Frank Crane (1861–1928) American Presbyterian minister
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart