love and heartbreak quotes

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. ~Nicholas Eberstadt, The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule


To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one. ~Author Unknown


We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ~George Herbert


It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century. ~Author Unknown


Passage: a usually brief portion of a written work or speech that is relevant to a point under discussion or noteworthy for content or style.


A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan


A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ~Albert Einstein, 1950


Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. ~Francesca M. Cancian


Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself. ~Author Unknown


When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ~Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955


I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson


You can never worry your way to enlightenment. ~Terri Guillemets


In the life we might have lived, the years never pass. On the person we might have been, time never leaves its mark. How different would seem our might-have-beens if we could picture them as would-be-nows. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ~Alexander Hamilton


What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine. ~Author Unknown


I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~Stan Isaacs, "Diamond-Studded Memories," Newsday, 9 April 1990


The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~Roseanne Barr


I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. ~Steven Wright