quotes about a broken heart

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ~James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan



Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail. ~Mark van Doren



She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. ~Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation



The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown



Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick



Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. ~Jean Paul Richter



Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck



I'm not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball



Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck. ~Author Unknown



Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating. ~Martin Reiser, quoted by Nicklaus Wirth, 1995, which spawned "Grove giveth, and Gates taketh away," author unknown, referring to CEOs of Intel and Microsoft



For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear. ~Samuel Lover, Rory O' More



When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under. ~Rosellen Brown



Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. ~Edgar Saltus



There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. ~Thomas Jefferson



In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. ~John Diamond



Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~Charles Lamb



When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. ~John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911



God sells us all things at the price of labor. ~Leonardo da Vinci