broken heart poems for guys

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland



There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~Celia Thaxter



I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. ~William Shakespeare, Henry IV



If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Terri Guillemets



It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. ~Mark Twain



Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. ~James Garfield



If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine. ~Author Unknown



Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore. ~Luke Perry



Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism. ~Hedrick Smith



The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ~Jim Bishop The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ~Jim Bishop



If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. ~Oscar Wilde



We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. ~John Updike



Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened. ~R. Lerner, letter, Sierra, March-April 1991



There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. ~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945



People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. ~Aristide Briand



Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ~John F. Kennedy



Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs - by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air. ~Alistair Cooke



In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960