Famous quotes containing the words sole, rule and/or downfall:
“All those who try to go it sole alone,
Too proud to be beholden for relief,
Are absolutely sure to come to grief.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Here’s the rule for bargains: “Do other men, for they would do you.” That’s the true business precept.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)