Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. Virginia Woolf
A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment. Carroll Quigley
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. John Calvin
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them. Margaret Mead
The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish - and it will. Hermann Hesse
The best things are the first to perish. Latin Proverb