What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.
When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.
We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
The apricot's fleetingly short harvest - only a few weeks long - explains the urge to save the season in a jar. But cooked fruit, no matter how expertly preserved, can never measure up to the flawlessness of its fresh counterpart.
All perishable is but an allegory.
If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
Apples taste sweetest when they're going.
Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.
I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
You can't make a souffle rise twice.
A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
I don't accept flowers. I take nothing perishable.
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish.
