A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Friedrich Schiller

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.
Hermann von Helmholtz

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.
Alan Dean Foster

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
Paracelsus

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
Ben Kingsley

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
Daniel J. Boorstin

As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.
Jon Porter

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner

But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
Edie Brickell

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.
Toshihiko Fukui

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
John Boyd Orr

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
W. H. Auden

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
Alfred Sisley

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
Cao Yu

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Douglas Horton

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Lewis Mumford

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
Henry Ellis

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Boris Pasternak