Broke may refer to:
- Broke, New South Wales, village in Australia
- Broke (adjective), a state of being currently (but not necessarily permanently) out of money
- Broke (noun), discarded paper created when a break occurs in the normally continuous papermaking process; the broke is usually recycled (see paper recycling)
Famous quotes containing the word broke:
“I broke my heart in two
So hard I struck.
What matter? for I know
That out of rock,
Out of a desolate source,
Love leaps upon its course.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“But you broke into heaven’s immortal store,
Where virtue, honor, wit, and beauty lay;
Which taking thence you have escaped away,
Yet stand as free as ere you did before;”
—Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
“Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,
And broke the die.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)