very sad quotes for broken hearts
Her lips were swollen, like firm buds ready to blossom. ~"The Garden," Chapter 4
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ~George Bernard Shaw
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman
Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. ~From a Washington Post reader submission word contest
Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men. ~Mae West
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ~Thomas Macaulay
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ~Alistair Cooke
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. ~Mae West
Action is the antidote to despair. ~Joan Baez
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. ~George Claude Lorimer
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ~Jean Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake, Jerusalem
A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable unimplicated sun. ~Llewelyn Powys, The Pathetic Fallacy
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy. ~Author Unknown
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown
Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it. ~Charles Baudelaire, "Advice to Young Writers," 1867
