Falls Quotes

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. (Aeschylus)
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. View quote
Lucille Ball
Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. View quote
Émile Zola
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. View quote
Billy Wilder
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. View quote
Che Guevara
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In times of war, the law falls silent. View quote
Cicero
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it. View quote
Edward Snowden
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. View quote
Washington Irving
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. View quote
Albert Einstein
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces. View quote
Helen Fielding
You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world... View quote
Jean Rhys
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. View quote
Alfred Marshall
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory. (Jefferson Davis)
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 him crawls He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
God gives us love. Something to love He lends us but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. View quote
William Temple