heartbroken poems and quotes

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. ~Thomas Jefferson, letter to Nathaniel Macon



If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first. ~Arthur Weigall



Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ~H.L. Mencken



Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale. ~Robert Graves



Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees. ~Anne Raver



A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. ~William Faulkner



How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. ~Alfred de Musset



When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. ~Octave Mirbeau



It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. ~Grace Hopper



Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter



The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ~Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950



Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. ~Voltaire Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ~Andre Dubus



Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~Bill Maher



Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ~Francis Bacon



If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. ~Elbert Hubbard



Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. ~Jackie Robinson



We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925



Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ~Elbert Hubbard



A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ~Baltasar Gracian