“Some men fall from grace. Some are pushed.”

“Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone.”

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall.”

“Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand.”

“A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence.”

“I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they’re being kind. I didn’t fall – I dove.”

“That water which falls from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its fall.”

“Thus falling, falling from afar,
As if some melancholy star
Had mingled with her light her sighs,
And dropped them from the skies.”

“Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.”

“Did I fall or was I pushed?
Did I fall or was I pushed?
And where's the blood?”