Fall Quotes
10460 quotes by 5768 authors
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When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho'…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
— Lucille Ball
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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
— Hilaire Belloc
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Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe…
— Winston Churchill
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He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to…
— Epictetus
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath…
— Alfred the Great
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
— Cecelia Ahern
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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on…
— Ruth Stout
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
— Aeschylus
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her…
— Seneca the Younger
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We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.
— Thomas Merton
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Hard work pays off. When someone tells you otherwise, beware the sales pitch for something "fast and easy" that's about to come next. The greater…
— Steve Pavlina
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[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by…
— Algernon Sidney
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He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
— Lucretius
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