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"The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines." »(Anon.)
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"And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak." »William Shakespeare
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"And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak." »William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI Part III", Act 2 scene 1
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"Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell." »Vince Lombardi
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"Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair." »Johnny Carson
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"The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate." »H. L. Mencken
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"Happy You know my girlfriend is dead. She fell off a cliff and died on impact." »Happy Gilmore
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"Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow." »Edwin Teale
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"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother." »Anonymous
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"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off." »Laertius Diogenes
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"Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity." »Henry Bromel
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"He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited." »Anthony Powell
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"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom." »Heinrich Heine
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"The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea" »Aldous Huxley
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"To dream of the person you would like me to be, is to waste the person you already fell in love with" »Tomie Motlow
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"At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time." »Woody Allen
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"If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self-denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went- Then you may count that day well spent." »George Eliot
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"It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford
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"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance." »Niccola Sebastiani
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"Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing." »Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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