(1983 quotes found)
“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won”
Walt Whitman
“Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.”
Caryn Leschen
“Even the fall of a dancer is a somersault”
Singhalese Proverb
“New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.”
David Letterman
“I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.”
William Shakespeare
“The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.”
William Arthur Ward
“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.”
Clarence Day
“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow”
