The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. - Henry David Thoreau
Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will - Belcampo
We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us. - David Ben-Gurion
The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans. - Finley Peter Dunne
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. - Samuel Adams
CAABA, n. A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread. - Ambrose Bierce
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. - Benjamin Disraeli
Science adjusts its views based on what's observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. - Tim Minchin
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. - William Feather
A picture is a fleeting moment of life preserved on a canvas. - Debasish Mridha
Nothing is really lost in the World; everything is preserved. - Joan Ambu
In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard of monstrous lust the due and just reward; In Pericles, his queen, and daughter, seen, Although assailed with fortune fierce and keen, Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crowned with joy at last. - William Shakespeare
A preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood - Fabcos Famas
As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him. - Bernhard Schlink
Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
Memories are fragile; they can be broken and forgotten or preserved like a tomb. - Tony Conte
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Though the space in hell is small, it can accommodate countless souls. When hell is full, those souls who’ve spent a millennium are evolved to burning flames. That’s how the fire of hell is preserved. - Prof PP Healings
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. - Confucius
The easy assumption that we have remembered the most important people and events and have preserved the most valuable evidence is immediately trumped by our inability to know what we have forgotten. - Wendell Berry
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. - Isaac Asimov
..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will: - William Wordsworth
Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved. - Albert E. Bowen
Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all. - Dara Horn
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. - Benjamin Disraeli
In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. - Theodore Roosevelt
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. - Richard Chenevix Trench