“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!” YearsChildrenReasonLightAgePainPastFallDarkPayLaughingHonorProfoundCastsOld AgeFiftyRaysBlindnessAlasTremblingFlickerDeafnessGout Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger
“When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost the reality of power. The English, having cut off the head of one of their kings and chased another off the throne, still go on their knees to address the successors of those princes. On the other hand, when a republic falls under one man's yoke, the ruler's demeanor remains simple, unaffected, and modest, as if he had not already been raised above everybody.” IfsMenLongStillsHandsRealityFallLostSimpleCuttingGoes OnKingsHonorRemainsRaisedTitlesPreservesKneesAddressesExecutivesOne ManRepublicRulersThronesModestMonarchySuccessorsYokeDemeanorExecutive Power Book:Democracy in America Source: Democracy in America
“My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don't need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let's play him more.” NeedsPlayArtistFallReadingSeeingHonorNotionAdjectivesEpithet Author:Jacques Barzun
“As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.” StillsLightEarthFallHonorFollowing Author:Dante Alighieri
“We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.” MenHas BeensFactsCertainFallNextLeftHoursSinWonderVirtueInfluenceHonorMen And WomenShameTemptationHeightShockExposed Author:J. G. Holland