“Ghastly Good Taste, or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.”
John Betjeman (1906–1984) English poet, writer and broadcaster
Title and sub-title of book (1933)
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 38
“Ghastly Good Taste, or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.”
John Betjeman (1906–1984) English poet, writer and broadcaster
Title and sub-title of book (1933)
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
Variant: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Source: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
“A man must either fall or rise in adversity.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) British writer
The cloud walker (1973)
“The glory of life is not never falling. The true glory consists in rising each time we fall.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Be wise;
Soar not too high to fall; but stoop, to rise.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) English writer
Duke of Milan (1623), Act I, scene ii.