“It is funnier to bend things than to break them.”

“The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“I bend but do not break.”

Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.

“Sometimes in your everyday life, you should say the right thing. But the wrong thing is funnier.”

Ed Byrne (1972) Irish comedian

“Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

“Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

“Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.”

Jaron Lanier (1960) American computer scientist, musician, and author

“And I won't break and I won't bend,
But someday soon we'll sail away
To innocence and the bitter end.
And I won't break and I won't bend,
And with the last breath we ever take
We're gonna get back to the simple life again.”

Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist

“So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet