Yet hope is not broken. [ Motto ]

Trust not to a broken staff. [ Proverb ]

A broken glass cannot be hurt. [ Proverb ]

A jealous head is soon broken. [ Proverb ]

Broken sacks will hold no corn. [ Proverb ]

Had we never loved sae kindly,
Had we never loved sae blindly,
Never met or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted! [ Burns ]

Yet, no - not words, for they
But half can tell love's feeling;
Sweet flowers alone can say
What passion fears revealing:
A once bright rose's wither'd leaf,
A tow'ring lily broken -
Oh, these may paint a grief
No words could ever have spoken. [ Moore ]

O there are Voices of the Past,
Links of a broken chain.
Wings that can bear me back to times
Which cannot come again;
Yet God forbid that I should lose
The echoes that remain! [ Adelaide A. Procter ]

Who have not saved some trifling thing
More prized than jewels rare,
A faded flower, a broken ring,
A tress of golden hair. [ Ellen C. Howarth ]

To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps. [ William Shakespeare ]

A threefold cord is not quickly broken. [ Bible ]

If the sky fall the pots will be broken. [ Proverb ]

A spirit pure as hers,
Is always pure, even while it errs:
As sunshine, broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still. [ Moore ]

A cask and an ill custom must be broken. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. [ Alan Turing ]

Trust not him that hath once broken faith. [ William Shakespeare ]

As broken a ship as this has come to land. [ Proverb ]

He has left, gone off, escaped, broken away. [ Cic. of Catiline's flight ]

An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
Give him a little earth for charity! [ William Shakespeare ]

By sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. [ Bible ]

I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
No broken images of ancestors,
Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
Of long descents, to boast false honors from. [ Ben Jonson ]

Dark the Night, with breath all flowers.
And tender broken voice that fills
With ravishment the listening hours, -
Whisperings, wooings.
Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
Dark the night
Yet is she bright.
For in her dark she brings the mystic star.
Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love.
From some unknown afar. [ George Eliot ]

Love is a child that talks in broken language,
Yet then he speaks most plain. [ Dryden ]

Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness,
Chords that were broken will vibrate once more. [ Mrs. van Alstyne ]

A cake and a bad custom are fated to be broken. [ French Proverb ]

'Tis midnight now. The bent and broken moon,
Battered and black, as from a thousand battles,
Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven. [ Joaquin Miller ]

Lulled by soft zephyrs through the broken pane. [ Pope ]

Your pot broken seems better than my whole one. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A plaister is a small amends for a broken head. [ Proverb ]

I should think your tongue had broken its chain! [ Longfellow ]

The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken. [ Napoleon ]

Fortune is like glass; when she shines, she is broken. [ Syrus ]

Turn to the press - its teeming sheets survey,
Big with the wonders of each passing day;
Births, deaths, and weddings, forgeries, fires and wrecks.
Harangues and hailstones, brawls and broken necks. [ Sprague ]

Beauty without modesty is like a flower broken from its stem.

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. [ Yogi Berra ]

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt. [ Dr. John ]

A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound. [ Proverb ]

Credit lost is a Venice-glass broken, which cannot be soldered. [ Proverb ]

The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last. [ French ]

The pitcher that goes often to the well, comes home broken at last. [ Proverb ]

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. [ Beaconsfield ]

'Tis a word that's quickly spoken. Which being restrained, a heart is broken. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Let a broken man cling to his work. If it saves nothing else, it will save him. [ Beecher ]

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. [ Bible ]

True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin, and broken from sin. [ Thornton ]

An engagement is hardly a serious one that has not been broken off at least once. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Ruins are the broken eggshell of a civilisation which time has hatched and devoured. [ Julia W. Howe ]

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. [ Johnson ]

The promise given was a necessity of the past; the word broken is a necessity of the present. [ Macchiavelli ]

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. [ Dewey ]

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain. [ Ovid ]

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. [ Cervantes ]

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. [ Victor Hugo ]

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

It is a law of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us. [ Corneille ]

Long customs are not easily broken: he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain. [ Johnson ]

Having sown the seed of secrecy, it should be properly guarded and not in the least broken; for being broken, it will not prosper. [ Hitopadesa ]

Let us laugh! Our fathers laughed at their miseries, let us laugh at ours too! Why! Lisette is not cruel, nor is my flagon broken! [ Beranger ]

Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces. [ Owen Feltham ]

No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age. [ Richter ]

Mr. Bettenham said that virtuous men were like some herbs and spices, that give not out their sweet smell till they be broken or crushed. [ Bacon ]

Where men or nations have broken down, it will almost invariably be found that neglect of little things was the rock on which they split. [ Smiles ]

The conversation of women in society resembles the straw used in packing china: it is nothing, yet, without it, everything would be broken. [ Mme. de Salm ]

It is the vain endeavour to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough. [ Lowell ]

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it never can be trusted after. [ Landor ]

There may be some tenderness, in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart. [ Richard Alleine ]

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! [ Scott ]

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Aphorisms, representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire further; whereas methods carrying the show of a total do secure men, as if they were at furthest. [ Bacon ]

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach. [ Bishop Hall ]

I met a brother who, describing a friend of his, said he was like a man who had dropped a bottle and broken it and put all the pieces in his bosom where they were cutting him perpetually. [ H. W. Beecher ]

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken. [ Macaulay ]

The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God. [ Bunyan ]

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it. [ Fielding ]

A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image, - the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual Venus, - whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons, - breathes the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever. [ Willmott ]

For ages the world has been waiting and watching; millions, with broken hearts, have hovered around the yawning abyss; but no echo has come back from the engulfing gloom - silence, oblivion, covers all. If indeed they survive; if they went away whole and victorious, they give us no signals. We wait for years, but no messages come from the far-away shore to which they have gone. [ Bishop R. S. Foster ]

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid. [ Willmott ]

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness. [ Johnson ]

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]

If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]

The first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor, in his heart's difficulty, is his mother; she clings to his memory and affection in the midst of all the f orgetf ulness and hardihood induced by a roving life; the last message he leaves is for her; his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lessons of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not in vain. She may drop into the grave, but she has left behind her influences that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its ofiice. [ A. H. Motte ]