Befall Quotes

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. View quote
John Muir
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. View quote
Joseph Addison
Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as a fear of the ill that may befall us. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. View quote
Daniel Handler
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats. View quote
James Frazer
Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race. View quote
Gore Vidal
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us. View quote
Jacques de Molay
It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the duke of Tintagil. View quote
Thomas Malory
Is life a boon? If so it must befall That death when e're he call Must call too soon. (W. S. Gilbert)
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!" View quote
Plutarch
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?" View quote
Plutarch
My life closed twice before its' close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. View quote
Emily Dickinson
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. View quote
Euripides
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realise, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth. View quote
Malcolm Muggeridge
As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can't. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn't perfect and neither are we. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people. View quote
Jennifer Egan
In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right. (Paul Elmer More)
We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. View quote
N. Scott Momaday
Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained. View quote
Pythagoras
I could not have acted otherwise, and I therefore accept all that has befallen me with love. View quote
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us. View quote
Henry David Thoreau