quotes and sayings about heartbreak

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ~Louis Kronenberger



Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football. ~Ondino Viera



He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack



She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child. ~Barbara Alpert She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands... It was a special embrace saved for special occasions. ~Jean M. Auel



Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. ~Conor Cruise O'Brien



If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me. ~Song title by Jimmy Buffet



Curmudgeon: anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner (source: Portable Curmudgeon Redux, Jon Winokur).



What's frustrating about being disliked is that it's invariably for the wrong reason. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. ~Lord Acton



Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ~Agnes Repplier, Points of View



Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ~Bennett Cerf



If men liked shopping, they'd call it research. ~Cynthia Nelms



If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ~Charley Reese



I don't like a guy with flowers. It means he's done something he shouldn't. The bigger the bouquet, the younger she was. ~Coupling, "Nine and a Half Minutes," original airdate 10 May 2004, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Sally I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. ~Felix Frankfurter



I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. ~Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907



Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~A.A. Milne



Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~Marcus Aurelius



A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn. ~Dave Barry



She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. ~Mae West



What holy cities are to nomadic tribes - a symbol of race and a bond of union - great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind. ~G.E. Woodberry