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fall rain wind
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Charles Dickens
fall mind excess
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble. Charles Caleb Colton
fall velocity vacuums
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
fall errors giving
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!
fall giving wife
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
fall errors common
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
fall passion world
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
fall scary house
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
funny-relationship echoes empty
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox. Charles M. Schulz
funny-relationship men wife
He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife. Bob Phillips
funny-relationship common understand-me
I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common? Ashleigh Brilliant
funny-relationship use care
Of course we humans have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them. April Gornik
funny-relationship men age
The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man Aristotle
funny-relationship heart psychology
In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart. Ambrose Bierce
funny-relationship
Women have all the power because women have all the vaginas. Dave Attell
funny-relationship quality individual
Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual. Confucius
funny-relationship parenting romance
Presence is more than just being there. Malcolm Forbes
stranger retiring pauses
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
stranger reason absurd
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned. Charlotte Bronte
stranger
The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Arthur C. Clarke
stranger my-favorite crushed
I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that. Boyd Holbrook
stranger oldest-friends
He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend. Ann Brashares
stranger truth
Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. Mira Nair
stranger endangered-species species
Strangers are an endangered species ... Adrienne Rich
stranger unison estrangement
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. Jane Austen
stranger
I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me. John Abraham