“For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.” FirstsFactsEyeScienceOrderFallLinesSawsFitFirst TimeGardenStandingChemistryTransformedSchemesRecipesJungleDutchBoyhoodHaphazardPeriodic TableMedley Book:The Search Source: The Search
“Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.” MenDoeFallGamesLanguageNationsSocialFitDetermineBelongingArrangementsEnteringSocial LifeImpervious Author:Alain Finkielkraut
“Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.” FallFitGolfThrowingTemperamentGolfing Author:Sam Snead
“The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.” HumansDoeFallFitPercentPatternsNarrativeOblivionHuman ExperienceNinety Author:Mason Cooley
“The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.” MenMaySoulStatesBodySeemsFallPassionPerfectDangerHealthFitSickness Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld