Woe Quotes

The cholerick man never wants woe.

— George Herbert

And death makes equal the high and low.

— John Heywood

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

— John Dryden

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

— Hafez

Long exercised in woes.

— Homer

These times of woe afford no time to woo.

— William Shakespeare

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

— John Heywood

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

— John Thorn

When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.

— Robert Herrick

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

— Anonymous

“In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe.”

— Anthony Liccione

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.

— Sophocles

Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

— Luigi Pirandello

The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

— John Dryden

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate…

— Hartley Coleridge

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

— Homer

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you…

— Lord Byron

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

— John Fletcher

This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

— William Shakespeare

The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily…

— Bernard Baruch

Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard…

— John L. Parker Jr

Tis aye a solemn thing to me To look upon a babe that sleeps-- Wearing in its spirit-deeps The unrevealed mystery Of…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that…

— Winston Churchill

Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government,…

— Arthur James Moore

I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke…

— Jack Osbourne

A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's…

— Rodney Dangerfield

My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail…

— Ronnie Dunn

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin…

— William Shakespeare

Slobodan Miloševi?, more than anyone else, caused a division within the Left and Centre Left, dividing the pacifists, anti-imperialists and anti-Americans from…

— Slobodan Milosević

We have created a mindset in our society where everyone wants what they want when they want it. And if we don't…

— Steve Rizzo

When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors,…

— Jack London

What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat…

— Friedrich Engels

If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first…

— Bhagat Singh

Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as…

— Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I…

— Dorothy Parker