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The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Peter De Vries

College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

Mort Sahl

A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Buck
US novelist in China (1892 - 1973)

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway
US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Jessamyn West

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Hemingway

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

Heinrich Heine
German critic & poet (1797 - 1856)

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid
Roman poet (43 BC - 17 AD)

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