Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. W. H. Auden
But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically. Edie Brickell
When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself. Italian Proverb
He has fallen off the donkey, but has found a date. Persian Proverb
When a single hair has fallen from your head, you are not yet bald. Sierra Leonean Proverb