A Quote by Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Bret Harte

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Bret Harte
American - Author
August 25, 1836 - May 5, 1902

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "could have, might have, should have,and might have been." Create yourself and live the story of your own unique life.

Rita Zahara

The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.

Guy Wetmore Carryl

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

Kurt Vonnegut

Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.

Dagmar Godowsky

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad.

John Mayer

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

Henry Ward Beecher

Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -

Arthur Guiterman

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

Miguel de Cervantes

In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty.

Chris Cleave

Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No more ink, no more words, no more b.s. Just me.

Allison Mackie

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

Lucinda Williams

Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

Lord Byron

One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.

Boris Beizer

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

Paul Auster

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