"Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills." Samuel Butler

 
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Samuel Butler

"The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears." Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus

 
"He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind." Thomas Fuller

 
"Failed the bright promise of your early day?" Bishop Reginald Heber

 
"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." Bishop Reginald Heber

 
"Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime-- Not failure, but low aim is crime." James Russell Lowell

"You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels." Philip Massinger

 
"All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years; But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears." Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller)

 
"If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." John Milton

"Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first."  Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus)

 
"When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting."Unattributed Author

 
"Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties." Matthew Arnold

"How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places." Bible

"In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word As--fail!" Edward George Earle Lytton