Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones. Miguel de Cervantes
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender. Marlene Dietrich
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes. Rebecca Wells
Hospitality to the exile, and broken bones to the oppressor. Scottish Gaelic Proverb
When the crane attempts to dance with the house she gets broken bones. Danish Proverb