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Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. He who is lying on the ground has nowhere to fall.
Oft seldan hw×r ×fter leodhyre lytle hwile bongar bugeth. It is very rare that, after the fall of a prince, the deadly spear rests for long.
If only we might fall Like cherry blossoms in the spring So pure and radiant.
Rome seule pouvait a' Rome ressembler, Rome seule pouvait Rome fait trembler. Only Rome can resemble Rome, And Rome alone can make Rome fall.
In the Garden City Cafe with its murals on the wall Before a talk on'Sex and Civics' I meditated on the Fall.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. Song of Solomon
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built hishouseupona rock: And theraindescended, and thefloodscame, and thewindsblew, and beat uponthat house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low no pride. He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.
A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
For I have known them all already, known them all Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room.
She who trifles with all Is less likely to fall Than she who but trifles with one.
It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind.
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.
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.
Je ne veux pas tomber, non, je veux dispara|"tre. I do not want to fall; I want to disappear.
Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
Whose fault? Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedecked halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.
Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the din.
That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where you are.
Then strip lads, and to it, though sharp be the weather, And if, by mischance, you should happen to fall, There are worse things in life than a tumble on the heather And life is itself a game of football.
In ten thousand years the Sierras Will be dryand dead, home of the scorpion. Ice-scratched slabs and bent trees. No paradise, no fall, Only the weathering land The wheeling sky, Man, with his Satan Scouring the chaos of the mind. Oh Hell!
And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!
You might as well fall flat onyour face as leanover toofar backward.
Pride comes before a fall; a sense of sisterhood with sad experience.
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