Famous quotes containing the words permanent and/or body:
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked worldnot even our troubles.”
—Charlie Chaplin (18891977)
“Alas! While your ambitious vanity is unceasingly laboring to cover the earth with statues, with monuments, and with inscriptions to eternalize, if possible, your names, and give yourselves an existence, when this body is no more, why must we be condemned to live and die unknown?”
—Thomas Paine 17371809, U.S. writer and magazine editor. Pennsylvania Magazine, pp. 362-4 (1775)