“ The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines. ”
- Anonymous- Copy
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“ The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines. ”
- American Saying- Copy
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“ The last time I appeared in Las Vegas, they were wearing hoop skirts and Davy Crockett hats,... But they say 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.' And as far as fashion is concerned, that's a good thing. ”
- Joan Rivers- Copy
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“ The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important. Material things I know, or fell, or see; All else is immaterial to me. Jamrach Holobom. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 888
“ No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow. ”
- Edwin Way Teale- Copy
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“ When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee. ”
- Margaret Courtney- Copy
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“ I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. ”
- William Ernest Henley- Copy
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“ O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse. ”
- James Hagerty- Copy
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“ Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels, men rebel. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill. ”
- Sir Samuel Garth- Copy
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“ The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. ”
- William M. Evarts- Copy
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“ We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure. ”
- Keith Davis- Copy
- 3.8K
“ When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 2.6K
“ When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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