Mended Quotes

75 quotes by 66 authors

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be… — Confucius
Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it. — Sally Field
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the… — Lysander Spooner
But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous… — Friedrich Engels
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his… — Samuel Johnson
I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Never love someone whom you think you need to mend â€“ or who makes you feel like you should be mended. There are boys out… — Caitlin Moran
What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended. — Isaac Watts
Some things are best mended by a break. — Edith Wharton
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good… — Margaret Mitchell
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. — Quintilian
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. — Ian Mcewan
After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I… — Flann O'Brien
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. — William Shakespeare
Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men.… — Elizabeth Smart
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended. — Benjamin Franklin
I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not… — Charles Frazier
The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered… — Michael Chabon
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again. — Alan Paton

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66 authors contributed a total of 75 Mended Quotes, led by these top contributors: