poems for broken hearts

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving evidence of the fact. ~George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, 1879



Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. ~Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses, 1910



The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Like those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there. ~Ray Miller



First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. ~Martin H. Fischer



You know you're an Arizona native when you "hug" a cactus only once in your lifetime. ~Nancy Dedera, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993



The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. ~Joseph Addison



A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ~William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918



Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948



Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere



We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764



Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. ~Arthur Baer



A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. ~Gloria Steinem



There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ~Alexandre Ledru-Rollin



I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see! ~Dave Beard



Failure is an event, never a person. ~William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!



Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled. ~Author Unknown



The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation. ~James Cook, 1779



In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow. ~Robert Jones Burdette