Mended Quotes
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Thismiry slough, issuch a place as cannot be mended: It is the descent
whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for
sindoth continually run, and therefore isit called the Slough
of Despond.
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More Mended Quotes
And still be doing, never done: As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.
— 1663 Hudibras, pt.1, canto1, l.202-4.
Little said is soonest mended.
Miguel de Cervantes— Ch. 11. (Part I)
As an egg, when broken, neverCan be mended, but must everBe the same crushed egg for ever—So shall this dark heart of mine!
thomas holley chivers— To Allegra Florence in Heaven.
Love is like a teacup that every day falls to the ground and breaks to pieces. In the morning the pieces are gathered and with a little moisture and a little warmth, the pieces are glued together, and again there is a little teacup. He who is in love spends life fearing that the terrible day will come when the teacup is so broken that it can no longer mended.
subcomandante marcos— "Speaking of Love, No Love, and Other Nuisances" (23 December 1995) in Our Word Is Our Weapon
And I oft have heard defended,—Little said is soonest mended.
george wither— The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Least said, soonest mended.
— Meaning: "In private animosities and verbal contentions, where angry passions are apt to rise, and irritating, if not profane expressions are often made use of, as we sometimes see to be the case, not only among neighbors, but in families, between husbands and wives, or parents and children, or the children themselves and other members of the household, - the least said, the better in general. By multiplying words, cases often grow worse instead of better."
— Source for meaning: Porter, William Henry (1845). Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order .... Munroe and Company. pp. 125.
You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.
robert jordan— Nynaeve al'Meara
And truths divine came mended from that tongue.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard (1717), line 66.
Little said is soonest mended.
george wither— George Wither, The Shepherd's Hunting.
What's broken can be mended, what's hurt can be healed. No matter how dark it gets, the sun's gonna rise again.
Meredith Grey— Played by Ellen Pompeo on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" (Season 11, Episode 25)
