cute quotes about heartbreak

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ~Katherine Hepburn



A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. ~Arthur Miller



A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. ~Henry David Thoreau



You can't write poetry on the computer. ~Quentin Tarantino



Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers



It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~Oscar Wilde



Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at? ~W.S. Gilbert



Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too. ~Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky



History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. ~Elias Canetti, The Human Province



Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty." ~W.A. Wallis



Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life. ~Sydney Smith



Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. ~Ellen Goodman, "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987



It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business. ~Dolley Madison



A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need. ~Sidney Carroll



I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. ~Frank Sinatra



Firefighting is all about ass - busting ours to save yours. ~Author Unknown



Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? ~Plutarch



A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. ~Barbara Walters



God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted. ~Stephen Crotts



After a night in fight club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break that law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6