We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
Aeschylus
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
Mikhail Bakunin
I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.
Daniel J. Bernstein
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
James Salter
For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
Francis Thompson
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
Jules Verne
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells