All that shakes falls not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The ripest fruit first falls. [ William Shakespeare ]
Noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads on flowers. [ Spencer ]
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals. [ Christopher Marlowe ]
Hasty climbers have sudden falls. [ Proverb ]
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 ]
The river knows the way to the sea:
Without a pilot it runs and falls.
Blessing all lands with its charity. [ Emerson ]
Slowly, slowly falls night's curtain
Over all the wide-spread land;
And the angels of the twilight
At the gates of heaven stand.
Lo, they come, a band of angels.
Clad in robes of tender gray;
And before their gracious presence,
Fades the sun's last lingering ray. [ C. E, Charles ]
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. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
A soul exasperated in ills, falls out
With everything, its friend, itself. [ Addison ]
The dew-drop in the breeze of morn,
Trembling and sparkling on the thorn.
Falls to the ground, escapes the eye,
Yet mounts on sunbeams to the sky. [ Montgomery ]
Evil falls on him who goes to seek it. [ Cervantes ]
A good bone never falls to a good dog. [ French Proverb ]
A man's walking is a succession of falls. [ Proverb ]
Grief boundeth where it falls,
Not with an empty hollowness, but weight. [ Rich. II ]
Pluck the acacia's golden balls.
And mark where the red pomegranate falls. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]
Sweet is the memory of distant friends!
Like the mellow rays of the departing sun,
It falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. [ Washington Irving ]
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness. [ Proverb ]
Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
The cloak sometimes falls off a cunning man. [ Italian Proverb ]
E'en like the passage of an angel's tear
That falls through the clear ether silently. [ Keats ]
He that falls today may be up again tomorrow. [ Proverb ]
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
In the mouth of a bad dog falls often a good bone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Rage is the shortest passion of our souls:
Like narrow brooks, that rise with sudden showers,
It swells in haste, and falls again as soon. [ Rowe ]
Into the mouth of a bad dog falls many a good bone. [ Proverb ]
Man's walk, like all walking, is a series of falls. [ Carlyle ]
He that stumbles, and falls not quite, gains a step. [ Proverb ]
He that takes too great a leap falls into the ditch. [ Proverb ]
Wherever snow falls, there is usually civil freedom. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Wealth is like rheum, it falls on the weakest parts. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again. [ Proverb ]
Anger is like rain which breaks itself whereon it falls. [ Seneca ]
The ill that comes out of our mouth falls into our bosom. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The virtuous woman who falls in love is much to be pitied. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom. [ Spanish Proverb ]
What old men can do always falls short of what they desire. [ A. Ricard ]
That falls out sometimes in a day which never fell out before. [ Proverb ]
If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for' his sake. [ Buddha ]
He that falls in the dirt, the longer he lies the dirtier he is. [ Proverb ]
The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of night. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
How quickly nature falls to revolt when gold becomes her object! [ Shakespeare ]
Gold causes strange disorders when it falls into a fool s hand. [ Proverb ]
Who falls from all he knows of bliss, cares little into what abyss. [ Byron ]
Since he cannot be revenged on the ass, he falls upon the pack-saddle. [ Proverb ]
He that finds something before it is lost will die before he falls ill. [ Dutch Proverb ]
He that falls into the dirt, the longer he stays there the fouler he is. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The old falls, the time changes, and new life blossoms out of the ruins. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago.
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men.
And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen. [ Bryant ]
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace. [ Cowper ]
It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong. [ Spenser ]
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word, - faith. [ Napoleon I ]
He who imitates what is evil always exceeds; he who imitates what is good always falls short. [ Guicciardini ]
The ray of light passes invisible through space, and only when it falls on an object is it seen. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The greater the height from which a stone is cast, the greater the impression on the spot where it falls. [ French ]
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived by others because we first deceive ourselves.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. [ Coleridge ]
Humor is the very juice of the mind, oozing from the brain, and enriching and fertilizing wherever it falls. [ Edwin P. Whipple ]
Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility. [ G. H. Lewes ]
A more valuable inheritance falls to each of us in our civil and legal rights than comes to us from our fathers. [ Cicero ]
A man's appearance falls within the censure of every one that sees him; his parts and learning very few are judges of. [ Steele ]
It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from. [ Bacon ]
Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, moulds the man. [ Dugald Stewart ]
Everything falls and is effaced. A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet, so much tumult on the surface! [ Victor Hugo ]
Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces. [ Owen Feltham ]
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. [ Buddha ]
If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. [ Landor ]
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. [ Guicciardini ]
Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over. [ Goldsmith ]
Perpetual solitude, in a place where you see nothing to raise your spirits, at length wears them out, and conversation falls into dull and insipid. [ Lady Montagu ]
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep, - we are on the death-bed. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. [ Johnson ]
This century boasts of progress! Have they invented a new mortal sin? Unfortunately there are but seven, as before - the number of the daily falls of a saint, which is very little. [ T. Gautier ]
Neptune has raised up his turbulent plains; the sea falls and leaps upon the trembling shore. She remounts, groans, and with redoubled blows makes the abyss and the shaken mountains resound. [ St. Lambert ]
He that falls into sin, is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls. [ Fuller ]
A fop who admires his person in a glass soon enters into a resolution of making his fortune by it, not questioning that every woman who falls in his way will do him as much justice as himself. [ Thomas Hughes ]
The air seems made up of happiness, the clouds, the trees, the grass, the pathless birds, land and water, - all seem to pulsate happiness, to emit it, to breathe it forth upon us; and it falls upon us as dew upon flowers. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
True, the poisonous breath of the world destroys our illusions, but they resuscitate at once when a ray of love falls upon our benumbed hearts, as the warmth of the sun revives the poor flowers withered by the ices of winter. [ De Finod ]
Melancholy, or low spirits, is that hysterical passion which forces unbidden sighs and tears; it falls upon a contented life, like a drop of ink on white paper, which is not the less a stain that it carries no meaning with it. [ Sir W. Scott ]
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye. [ Ruskin ]
There are two ways of attaining au important end - force and perseverance. Force falls to the lot only of the privileged few, but austere and sustained perseverance can be practiced by the most insignificant. Its silent power grows irresistible with time. [ Madame Swetchine ]
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]