sad love poems and quotes

Someone might say of me that I have only made a bouquet of other people's flowers here, having supplied nothing of my own but the thread to bind them. ~Michel de Montaigne Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem



In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours. ~John Milton



The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven. ~David Lloyd George



History is a mixture of error and violence. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Fire is the most tolerable third party. ~Henry David Thoreau



I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ~Winston Churchill



They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. ~William Shakespeare



An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. ~Henry Wotton, Reliqui? Wottonian?



Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971



Psychology doesn't address the soul - that's something else - but, this is a start. ~David Chase, The Sopranos, "The Sopranos," original airdate 10 January 1999, spoken by the character Carmela Soprano



I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness. ~Julia Peterkin, A Plantation Christmas, 1934



The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ~Thomas Jefferson



I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ~Ralph Ellison



How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire? ~Christy Whitehead



A man will turn over half a library to make one book. ~Samuel Johnson



Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ~Alphonse de Lamartine



The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ~Clarence Darrow



In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out. ~A.J.P. Taylor



Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine. ~Author Unknown