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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• 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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• "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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Autumn, Years, Sky

  Sharon Kay Penman (2002). “Time and Chance”, p.291, Penguin

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• The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!

  Thomas Hood

  Morning, Winter, Autumn

  Thomas Hood (1864). “Poetical Works. --”, p.159

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• The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.

  Denis Waitley

  Autumn, Fullness Of Life, Enjoy Life

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• Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

  Carl Sandburg

  Autumn, Wind, Land

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

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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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• In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Dream, Heart

  Marcel Proust (2016). “Swann's Way”, p.263, Marcel Proust

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• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Fear, Real, Grieving

  Interview with Robert Thurman, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

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• Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.

  Will Carleton

  Sweet, Autumn, Yellow

  Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.99, Applewood Books

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• All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.

  Robert Burns

  Cheer, Autumn, Yellow

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1835). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings”, p.101

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• For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.

  Hal Borland

  Autumn, Years, Three

  Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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