broken heart quotes

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything... that smacks of discrimination or slander. ~Mary McLeod Bethune



Let God's promises shine on your problems. ~Corrie Ten Boom



I hire tea by the tea bag. ~Martin Amis, on renting the essentials of life after breaking up with a lover, Money: A Suicide Note (Thanks to bartleby.com for verifying the details of the source.)



We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty. ~William Ralph Inge



After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~Miss Piggy



In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are addressed should be big and tall of stature. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb



I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. ~Albert Einstein, "What I Believe," Forum and Century, 1930



No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul. ~Bruce McCall, "The Case Against Golf," Esquire



Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient. ~William Withey Gull



A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885



Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. ~Tom O'Connor



The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. ~Helen Rowland



It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. ~Clare Short



Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows. ~Author Unknown



Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. ~Elbert Hubbard



Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. ~Mae West



To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. ~Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876