Widows Quotes · Page 4

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

— Jane Austen

Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.

— Lynn Caine

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.

— Mahatma Gandhi

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than…

— Michelangelo

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her…

— Samuel Johnson

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.

— Dorothy Dix

I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to…

— Scott Simon

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

— Ihara Saikaku

“I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house,…

— Shannon Celebi

TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in…

— Ambrose Bierce

My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the…

— Denis Leary

From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets…

— Alex Berenson

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives,…

— James Joyce

Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in…

— Rick Yancey

Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The…

— Carolyn Custis James

We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only…

— Rick Riordan

To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders…

— Mark Sanchez

But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and…

— Jason Graae

In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of people who work with wildlife work with wildlife to satisfy their own egos. And I don't really agree with…

— Steve Irwin

Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless…

— Thomas Cahill

Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me,…

— Rufus Wainwright

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy…

— Queen Victoria

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

— Alexander Herzen

“The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows”

— Barbara Kingsolver

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the…

— Bill Vaughan

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

— Ruth Rendell

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

— William Ralph Inge

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.

— Josh Billings

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

— Christina Stead

Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]

— George Herbert

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about…

— Charles Todd

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

— Samuel B. Pettengill

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

— Mary Borden

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

— Courtney Love

“You never hear widows voice the sentiment, but I could stave off companionship indefinitely. Sex, not so much.”

— Abby Fabiaschi

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

— Colonel Sanders