Fall back, fall edge. [ Proverb ]
Look high and fall low. [ Proverb ]
Every slip is not a fall. [ Proverb ]
The trickling rain doth fall
Upon us one and all;
The south-wind kisses
The saucy milk-maid's cheek.
The nun's, demure and meek,
Nor any misses. [ E. C. Stedman ]
A stumble may prevent a fall. [ Proverb ]
A great tree hath a great fall. [ Proverb ]
Easier it is to fall than rise. [ Proverb ]
Fall silently like dew on roses. [ Dryden ]
He that is down can fall no lower. [ Butler ]
Use gentle words, for who can tell
The blessings they impart?
How oft they fall, as manna falls,
On some nigh-fainting heart. [ Ethel L. Beers ]
He that is down need fear no fall. [ Bunyan ]
Roses fall, but the thorns remain. [ Dutch Proverb ]
Awake, arise, or be forever fall'n! [ Milton ]
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary. [ Longfellow ]
Into contradicting
Be thou never led away;
When with the ignorant they strive,
The wise to folly fall away. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Old buildings may fall in a moment. [ Proverb ]
I let fall the windows of mine eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]
When darkness gathers over all,
And the last tottering pillars fall,
Take the poor dust Thy mercy warms,
And mould it into heavenly forms. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Can a mouse fall in love with a cat? [ Proverb ]
To lordlings proud I tune my lay,
Who feast in bower or hall;
Though dukes they be, to dukes I say,
That pride will have a fall. [ Gay ]
A brave man may fall but cannot yield.
If the sky fall, we shall catch larks. [ Proverb ]
Everything that totters does not fall. [ Montesquieu ]
He who climbs too high is near a fall. [ Italian Proverb ]
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky.
The dew shall weep thy fall tonight;
For thou must die. [ Herbert ]
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of paradise that has survived the fall. [ Cowper ]
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
If the sky fall the pots will be broken. [ Proverb ]
One wrong step may give you a great fall. [ Proverb ]
Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm. [ Proverb ]
Sit still rather than rise and fall down. [ Proverb ]
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. [ John Dickinson ]
Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain.
We'll have our pleasure over again.
To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
Gay dreams to all! good night, good night. [ Joanna Baillie ]
Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things,
The fall of empires and the fate of kings. [ Burns ]
How sweetly did they float upon the wings
Of silence through the empty-vaulted night.
At every fall smoothing the raven down
Of darkness till it smiled! [ Milton ]
Like a cat, he'll still fall upon his legs. [ Proverb ]
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow.
Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent. [ Auerbach ]
But the fruit that can fall without shaking.
Indeed is too mellow for me. [ Lady Montagu ]
And conscience, truth and honesty are made
To rise and fall, like other wares of trade. [ Moore ]
He that gallops his horse on Blackstone edge
May chance to catch a fall. [ Old song ]
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. [ Wm. Pitt ]
If a man once fall, all will tread upon him. [ Proverb ]
I did not fall into love - I rose into love. [ Bulwer ]
Where the offence is, let the great axe fall. [ William Shakespeare ]
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. [ Smollett ]
Good unexpected, evil unforeseen,
Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene;
Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain
And fall so hard, they bound and rise again. [ Lord Lansdowne ]
The tender flower that lifts its head, elate,
Helpless must fall before the blasts of fate,
Sunk on the earth, defaced its lovely form,
Unless your shelter ward th' impending storm. [ Burns ]
To fall away from a horse load to a cart load. [ Proverb ]
Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend;
The conscious moon, through every distant age.
Has held a lamp to wisdom, and let fall
On contemplation's eye her purging ray. [ Young ]
Pride seldom leaves its master without a fall. [ Proverb ]
When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand. [ William Shakespeare ]
Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. [ Homer ]
He that lies upon the ground can fall no lower. [ Proverb ]
Each man makes his own stature, builds himself:
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. [ Edward Young ]
Thy will be done though the heavens should fall.
Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief
On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair
It has mantled a world. [ Joaquin Miller ]
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race, the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those have passed away. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]
The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary.
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. [ Longfellow ]
The brains of a pedant, however fall, are vacant. [ Greville ]
Greatness, once fallen out with fortune,
Must fall out with men too; what the declined is,
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others
As feel in his own fall. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]
Many things fall out between the cup and the lip. [ Proverb ]
If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [ Tacitus ]
Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall. [ Alice Cary ]
It is better to fall from the window than the roof. [ Italian Proverb ]
The fall of waters and the song of birds.
And hills that echo to the distant herds.
Are luxuries excelling all the glare
The world can boast, and her chief favorites share. [ Cowper ]
Where knaves fall out, honest men come by their own. [ Proverb ]
There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. [ William Shakespeare ]
Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again. [ Proverb ]
Be wise; Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. [ Massinger ]
Let justice be done, though the heavens should fall in. [ Proverb ]
That which may fall out at any time may fall out today. [ Proverb ]
Even an ass will not fall twice in the same quick-sand. [ Proverb ]
No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it. [ Johnson ]
Some men are like cats, they always fall on their feet. [ Anthony Collins ]
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall. [ Bacon ]
He rode sure indeed that never caught a fall in his life. [ Proverb ]
It is easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again. [ Proverb ]
Oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip. [ Greene ]
Spit not against heaven, it will fall back into your own face. [ Proverb ]
They only fall that strive to move, or lose that care to keep. [ Owen Meredith ]
It is difficult to descend with grace without seeming to fall. [ Blair ]
Let the drunkard alone, and by and bye he will fall of himself. [ Proverb ]
And the shadows lengthen as they fall from the lofty mountains. [ Virgil ]
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. [ Bible ]
Unpack my heart with words. And fall a-cursing, like a very drab. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let us not strive to rise too high, that we may not fall too low. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Let our friends perish, provided our enemies fall along with them. [ Gr. and Lat. Proverb, quoted by Cicero to condemn it ]
It is better to fall short of a high mark, than to reach a low one. [ H. C. Payne ]
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. [ Bible ]
To fall in love is not difficult: the difficulty lies in telling it. [ A. de Musset ]
Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too. [ William Shakespeare ]
If he had two ideas in his head, they would fall out with each other. [ Johnson ]
The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath. [ Whittier ]
The benediction of these covering heavens fall on their heads like dew. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [ Cicero ]
It is a hard thing to have a great estate, and not fall in love with it. [ Proverb ]
Rash combat oft immortalizes man. If he should fall, he is renowned in song. [ Goethe ]
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only that it may fall. [ Seneca ]
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. [ Arthur Helps ]
To leave this keen encounter of our wits, and fall somewhat into a slower method. [ William Shakespeare ]
The seasons alter; hoary-headed frosts fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose. [ William Shakespeare ]
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. [ Socrates ]
Our greatest glory consists, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]
Fortune is like a market, where many times if you wait a little the price will fall. [ Bacon ]
Earthly pride is like a passing flower, that springs to fall and blossoms but to die. [ Kirke White ]
If to her share some female errors fall,Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. [ Pope ]
Pearly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. [ H. K. White ]
When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees. [ Young ]
By robbing Peter he paid Paul ... and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall. [ Rabelais ]
Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate. [ Richter ]
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth. [ George Bancroft ]
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall. [ Ernest Renan ]
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall: A mother's secret hope outlives them all. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. [ Joubert ]
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour the dead only, these the living. [ Antisthenes ]
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them; and if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. [ William Shakespeare ]
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. [ Massinger ]
Every day is a rampart breach which many men are storming; fall in it who may, no pile is forming of the slain. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The sun's power cannot draw a wandering star from its path. How then could a human being fall out of God's love! [ Rückert ]
Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. [ Denzel Washington ]
It is a wretched thing to lean on the reputation of others, lest the pillars being withdrawn the roof should fall in ruins. [ Juvenal ]
Scandals are like dandelion seeds - they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold. [ Ouida ]
Dost thou now fall over to my foes? Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. [ William Shakespeare ]
When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. [ Fuller ]
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting. [ Cicero ]
Walk this world with no friend in it but God and St. Edmund, and you will either fall into the ditch or learn a good many things. [ Carlyle ]
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretenses, like flowers, fall to the ground: nor can any counterfeit last long. [ Cicero ]
The fairest fortune that can fall to a thinking man is to have searched out the searchable, and restfully to adore the unsearchable. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high. [ J. M. Barrie ]
Now black and deep the night begins to fall, a shade immense; sunk in the quenching gloom, magnificent and vast, are heaven and earth. [ Thomson ]
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, I think the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like. [ Addison ]
Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. [ Johnson ]
Necessity is a bad recommendation to favors of any kind, which as seldom fall to those who really want them, as to those who really deserve them. [ Fielding ]
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground? [ Milton ]
Garments will fall to pieces, jewels and gold will lose something of their lustre, but the fame that great poems acquire will last through all time. [ Ovid ]
The blessings of health and fortune, as they have a beginning, so they must also have an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. [ Sallust ]
O youth! ephemeral song, eternal canticle! The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe! [ Jules Janin ]
If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Our illusions fall one after the other like the parings of fruit: the fruit is experience; its savor may be bitter, still it contains something that strengthens. [ G. de Nerval ]
Since not only judgments have their awards, but mercies their commissions, snatch not at every favour, nor think thyself passed by if they fall upon thy neighbour. [ Sir T. Browne ]
No man's credit can fall so low but that, if he bear his shame as he should do, and profit by it as he ought to do, it is in his own power to redeem his reputation. [ Lord Nottingham ]
A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life. [ Willmott ]
The lofty pine is oftenest agitated by the winds - high towers rush to the earth with a heavier fall - and the lightning most frequently strikes the highest mountains. [ Horace ]
Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. [ Rev. T. Jones ]
As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother. [ Bulwer ]
Here's a good joke to do during an earthquake: straddle a big crack in the ground, and if it opened wider, go Whoa! Whoa!
and flail your arms around, like you're going to fall in. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
When I beheld human affairs involved in such dense darkness, the guilty exulting in their prosperity, and pious men suffering wrong, what religion I had began to reel backward and fall. [ Claudius, Claudian ]
The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. [ Seneca ]
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 ]
So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep. [ H. W. Beecher ]
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scale the fall of an empire and the dropping of a woman's glove; and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. [ Balzac ]
Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into. [ Emerson ]
Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin. and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like an expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives him a throw. [ South ]
Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout. [ Landor ]
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. Or, as the Chinese better say, The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.
[ Bovee ]
One could not wish any man to fall into a fault; yet it is often precisely after a fault, or a crime even, that the morality which is in a man first unfolds itself, and what of strength he as a man possesses, now when all else is gone from him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others; and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring. [ Bentham ]
Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better. [ Quarles ]
Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man. [ Ruskin ]
Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]
Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich and as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches, glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor. [ Quarles ]
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. [ Johnson ]
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. [ Bruyere ]
Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality. [ Ruskin ]