Fall Quotes - Page 5

• Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Autumn, Years

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• Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Reading, Creativity, Men

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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• "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Encouragement

  "Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.

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• Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk.

  Princess Shikishi

  Autumn, Voice, Tears

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  Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Death, Suicide

  "The 2,000 Year Old Man". Animation, Comedy, 1975.

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• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

  Edmund Burke

  Honesty, Integrity, War

  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) See Edmund Burke 28; Mill 18

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• My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Beautiful, Rain

  Robert Frost (2004). “A Boy's Will”, p.13, 1st World Publishing

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• The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.

  Aldo Leopold

  Autumn, Wind, Tree

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  You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.

  Hayley Williams

  Success, I Hate You, Understanding

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Heart, Want

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• I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.

  Sue Grafton

  Autumn, Eight, Years

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• Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.

  Archie Manning

  Time, Autumn, Boys

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• Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Autumn, Air, Giving

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

  George Washington Carver

  Love, God, Nature

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• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Spring, Autumn

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• I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Autumn, Land, Asters

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• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  Malcolm X

  Wisdom, Peace, War

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• To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

  Nancy Mitford

  Love, Advice, Mind

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Spring, Autumn, Dresses

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Wisdom, Nature, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

  David Lee Roth

  Funny, Life, Sports

  "Roth Army" by Oliver Hurley, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2004.

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• Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Relationship, Temporary Insanity

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Learning, Knowledge

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Autumn, Light

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1956). “The American Essays”, p.23, Princeton University Press

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