broken heart poems for boys

Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned. ~Henry Drummond



Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold. (Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum.) ~Alanus de Insulis, Parabolae, c.1280, later used by Shakespeare and others as "All that glisters is not gold." (see notes at bartleby.com), now commonly misphrased as "glitters"



You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. ~Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge



There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases. ~Rick Maksian



The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. ~Niccolo Machiavelli



Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~Doug Larson



Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow. ~Bob Ekstrom



Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley



A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. ~Ogden Nash



Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956 Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. ~Ellen Glasgow



The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law



Bad weather always looks worse through a window. ~Author Unknown



Above all else: go out with a sense of humor. It is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey



Hug a police officer. It's the law! ~Author Unknown



A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ~Jerome Lawrence



Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take. ~Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point, 1982



Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad. ~Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much



Most people want security in this world, not liberty. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956