Definition of Durable

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Definition of Durable
	Durable Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness. Related Definitions: Able, As, Changeable, Cloth, Condition, Continue, Decaying, Durable, Endure, Enduring, Happiness, In, Lasting, Not, Or, Out, Particular, Perishable, Soon, To, Wearing

Durable Quotations

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
Stephen Leacock

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Bette Davis

The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
John McCain

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
Bertolt Brecht

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Ludwig von Mises

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
Arthur Henderson

Durable Translations

durable in Italian is fermo, durevole
durable in Norwegian is varig, holdbar
durable in Spanish is sustentable, duradero

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