Fall

Famous quotes containing the word fall:

    “In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “Wind, the season-climate mixer,
    In my Witches’ Weather Primer
    Says, to make this Fall Elixir
    First you let the summer simmer....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be used because it may be a meanes to prevent strokes and blowes, especially in ingenuous and good natured children. [Blows are] the last remedy which a parent can use: a remedy which may doe good when nothing else can.”
    —William Gouge, Puritan writer. As quoted in The Rise and Fall of Childhood by C. John Sommerville, ch. 11 (rev. 1990)