Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

No man is invincible.

Sometimes you get hit on the nose and nothing happens, then you get hit and something breaks.

Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.

When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.

When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded.

Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Things are strongest where they're broken.

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

So all things limp together for the only possible.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.