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Tag Name "Befall" (77)

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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake
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But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.
William Shakespeare
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There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.
Robert Gardner
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Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
Saint Francis de Sales
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To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.
Slavenka Drakulic
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There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.
Stephen Hawking
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I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.
Toby Young
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Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
W. S. Gilbert
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Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
Walter Raleigh
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Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, God forbid that it should ever befall me!
Plutarch
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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
Gore Vidal
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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
Helen Keller
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We cannot say this or that trouble shall not befall, yet we may, by help of the Spirit, say, nothing that doth befall shall make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.
Richard Sibbes
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Consider that nothing in human life is stable for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.
Isocrates
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My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.
James Fenton
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It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.
Jane Mayer
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Maliki saw Islamic State as a way to exert pressure. If I am not re-elected, terror will befall you - that was his message.
Ahmed Chalabi
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.
Alexander H. Stephens
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The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.
John Calvin
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Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.
Andrew Lang
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Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.
John Milton
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I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.
Charles Brockden Brown
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