Each fall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, football fans
cheer for their favorite irrational number: "Cosine, secant, tangent,
sine, three point one four one five nine!"
-Bruce Watson
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change
color and fall from the trees.
-David Letterman
Ah, the gap between expectation and achievement is filled with the
screams of good men, still falling.
-Reginald Hill
All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals
and the least to the people that have been the first to fall.
-Harry
S. Truman
Attempted assassinations are the accidents of kings, just as falling
chimneys are the accidents of masons. If we must weep, let us weep for
the masons.
-Benito Mussolini
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position
falls, your ego goes with it.
-Colin Powell
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
-Dan
McKinnon
Character is made by what you stand for; reputation, by what you fall
for.
-Robert Quillen
I hate when my foot falls asleep during the day because it means it's
going to be up all night.
-Steven Wright
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you
know?
-Ernest Hemingway
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, is Bambi squashed
beneath it any less dead?
-Mason Capwell
If I must fall, may it be from a high place.
-Paulo Coelho
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will
fall by the hands of the clergy.
-General Marquisde Lafayette
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
-Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am
persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a horizontal fall.
-Jean Cocteau
Man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
-Alphonse de
Lamartine
Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
-Theodore
Parker
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying
the whole girl.
-Evan Esar
Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to
tell the Good Lord from the Devil.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to
you despite yourself, like falling downstairs.
-Robert A. Heinlein
On the fall of an oak every man gathers wood.
-Menander
One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking
zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
programs.
-Robert Firth
Only when a tree has fallen can you take a measure of it. It is the same
with a man.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
People who wrestle with their consciences usually go for two falls out
of three.
-Unattributed
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with
the least possible damage.
-Edouard Herriot
Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise.
Let the chippies fall where they may.
-Sally Stanford
Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.
-Tom
Trebelhorn
The bigger they come, the harder they fall on you.
-John Alejandro
King (The Covert Comic)
The hardest tumble one can take is to fall over his own bluff.
-Unattributed
The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack
Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and
walked away, the crowd booed.
-Bob Uecker
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight
times.
-Paulo Coelho
The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the
Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is
almost always too high.
-Ralph Peters, Lt. Col. (Ret)
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up.
(Sign
in NASA Onboard Shuttle Software Group)
-Unattributed
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and
terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.
-John
Kenneth Galbraith
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
-Alexander Hamilton
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
-Confucius
We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through
which they attained it.
-Jean de la Bruyere
Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by
pestilence; so why bother shaving?
-Woody Allen
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
-Paulo
Coelho
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under
fire, and drop into your grave.
-Quentin Crisp
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
-James
Thurber
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