quotes about broken hearts and love

Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive. ~Jean-Paul Aron



I'm like King Midas in reverse, here. Everything I touch turns to shit. ~Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, The Sopranos, "Isabella," original airdate 28 March 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano



Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. ~Proverbs 26:12



Beer is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. ~Homer Simpson



Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim



Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn



A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. ~Richard Reeves



Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. ~Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects," Miscellanies, 1711



Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work. ~Lemony Snicket



Skipping is just a dancing walk, or if you prefer, a walking dance. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Epigram: a terse, witty, pointed statement, often with a clever twist in thought, or a short poem with a witty or satirical point.



I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. ~Georges Clemenceau



What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because when it's time to go, you can't disappoint those little faces. ~Wendie Malick



I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and is willing to accept the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963



I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick



A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality. ~E.B. White, One Man's Meat, 1944



Death and dice level all distinction. ~Samuel Foote, The Minor



I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! ~Catharine M. Sedgwick



We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. ~Albert Barnes



What a strange power there is in clothing. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer