Famous quotes containing the words bankruptcy of, bankruptcy, lehman and/or brothers:
“A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless—for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.”
—Washington Irving (1783–1859)
“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy—the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“There’s nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who’s in love with him.”
—Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)
““Oh tell her I lie in Kirk-land fair,
And home shall never come.””
—Unknown. The Twa Brothers (l. 39–40)