Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 11.
“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.”
“If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now."”
That's my favorite joke.
A Man Without a Country (2005)
Source: If i fall your catching me" Piper said as she grabbed Jasons arm
"Uh... sure" Jason hoped he wasn't blushing
Leo stepped out next "Your catching me too superman, but i ain't holding your hand"
- The Lost Hero, Aeolus place
“Curran looked at me. “What the hell was I supposed to do, catch the werebison as he was falling?”
Source: Magic Strikes
1 Peter 1:25
Heaven Taken By Storm
http://redflagflyinghigh.com/2011/05/blogs/scholes-tribute-the-worlds-top-players-on-the-ginger-prince
Luis Figo
“Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.”
The Village Curate. Compare: "To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb", Nicholas Breton, Court and Country (reprint, 1618), p. 183; "Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke", John Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 229.
“He [ Delacroix ] is an eagle, I am only a lark.”
as quoted in Corot, Gary Tinterow, Michael Pantazzi, Vincent Pomarède - Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), National Gallery of Canada, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1996, p. 272 – quote 65
1860s
“[Unitarianism is] a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.”
Quoted by Charles Darwin in a letter http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-00115-00015/5 to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 11 May 1859 http://books.google.com/books?id=YMERco2uLdcC&q=%22a+feather+bed+to+catch+a+falling+Christian%22&pg=PA158#v=onepage
