Falls

Famous quotes containing the word falls:

“How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“One who falls in a pit, gains in wit.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts.... It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that—being what it is—it falls so short of in fact and in deed.”
—Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)