quotes on heartbreak

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897



You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. ~Nora Ephron



Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either. ~P.J. O'Rourke



The same media people that claim violence on TV doesn't influence people, are perfectly willing to sell you advertising time. ~Author Unknown



The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ~Pearl S. Buck



Maybe this world is another planet's hell. ~Aldous Huxley



Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality. ~Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, 1964



Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb, 1821



If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~James Michener



Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. ~Jean Kerr



If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis



How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? ~Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories



The private lives of the ancients are now the public sport of the moderns. ~Ivor Brown



Success is 10% inspiration, 90% last-minute changes. ~From a billboard advertisement



In my opinion, a horse is the animal to have. Eleven-hundred pounds of raw muscle, power, grace, and sweat between your legs - it's something you just can't get from a pet hamster. ~Author Unknown



Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire. ~Virgil



I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. ~Andre Gide



Being human in our modern civilization is being forced into a boxing ring with Nature. And we're bloodied every time. ~M. Robin D'Antan



There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. ~Edwin Denby