Fall

Famous quotes containing the word fall:

“It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“That’s the convenient part about a fall guy: once you’ve got him hooked, you’ve always got him hooked.”
—Ketti Frings (1915–1981)

“What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)