Browse 10839 quotes about Fall.
“Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.”
“Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.”
Source: Personal Pleasures
“The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago,
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,
Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,
And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.”
“Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.”
Source: Cross Creek
“A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.”
“it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.”
“The weary August days are long;
The locusts sing a plaintive song,
The cattle miss their master's call
When they see the sunset shadows fall.”
Source: Alice of Monmouth: An Idyl of the Great War : with Other Poems
“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“And in thy own sermon, thou
That the sparrow falls dost allow,
It shall not cause me any alarm;
For neither so comes the bird to harm,
Seeing our Father, thou hast said,
Is by the sparrow's dying bed;
Therefore it is a blessed place,
And the sparrow in high grace.”
Source: THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship
“I can pass days
Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,--
The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf
A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.”
Source: Poetical works complete
“In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.”
Source: A Benjamin Franklin reader: the essential writings of a colonial sage ; Autobiography, Wit & wisdom
“Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.”
“The ash her purple drops forgivingly
And sadly, breaking not the general hush;
The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea,
Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush;
All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze,
Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.”
Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations
“The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“In rising sighs and falling tears.”
Source: The spectator
“How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?”
Source: The Works of Joseph Addison
“A soul exasperated in ills, falls out
With everything, its friend, itself.”
Source: Tragedy of Jane Shore with a Critique by Richard Cumberland
“When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.”
“My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.”
Source: The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple
“O Earth, so full of dreary noises!
O men, with wailing in your voices!
O delved gold, the wader's heap!
O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall!
God makes a silence through you all,
And "giveth His beloved, sleep.”
“A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.”
“Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!”
“Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.”
Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes
“Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.”
Source: Early Short Stories: American Literature
“The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.”
Source: Thinking In The Future Tense
“From good to bad, and from bad to worse,
From worse unto that is worst of all,
And then return to his former fall.”
Source: Poetical works
“The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.”
“A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.”
“No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols 11-13: Debates in Parliament
“Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So, through all history, to the end, as long as men believe in God that army must still march and fall, recruited only from the flower of mankind, cheered only by their own hope of humanity, strong only in the confidence of their cause.”
Source: Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891
“The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.”
“A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.”
Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
“I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again - or with anyone else. In this sense 'marriage' seems to me indissoluble.”
“I have a theory about soul mates -- that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.”
“If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.”
“Come, evening, once again, season of peace;
Return, sweet evening, and continue long!
Methinks I see thee in the streaky west,
With matron step, slow moving, while the night
Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employ'd
In letting fall the curtain of repose
On bird and beast, the other charged for man
With sweet oblivion of the cares of day.”
Source: Poems ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery. [With plates.]
“The fall of waters and the song of birds,
And hills that echo to the distant berds,
Are luxuries excelling all the glare
The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.”
“Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.”
Source: The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems
“Forbear, you things
That stand upon the pinnacles of state,
To boast your slippery height! when you do fall,
You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise:
And he that lends you pity, is not wise.”
Source: Sejanus His Fall
“Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.”
Source: It's Always Something
“Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.”
Source: Jo's Boys: Top Novelist Focus
“'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.”
“Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall,
Short lot, or not, to be content with all.”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du
“Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor