#fall

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#enlightenment #error #fallibility #humanity #humility

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bona fide #doing #falls #fide #ground

If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up. ↗

— Les Brown

#fall #get #look #up #you

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

— Richard Branson

#falling #following #learn #over #rules

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. ↗

— Marquis de Lafayette

#american people #clergy #destroyed #ever #fall

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#apples #base #bumper #cannot #colonial

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#bakery #fall #grew #i #massachusetts

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#also #down #easy #fall #i

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#bed #before #fall #go #hours

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#bed #between #control #eat #enough