Widows Quotes

Young widows still bide their time.

— Josh Billings

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

— Horace Greeley

“assure you that there were many widows in Israel in”

— Bob Saffrin

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

— Sacha Guitry

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

— Benjamin Franklin

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Widows don't accidentally flash their underwear at anyone.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I…

— Alber Elbaz

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

— Honore de Balzac

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]

— Siri Hustvedt

“What is a woman that you forsake her And the hearth fire and the home acre To go with that old grey…

— Rudyard Kipling

I make chicks consider themselves widows whose husbands ain't even died yet.

— Chino XL

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

— Alphonse Karr

A black widow loves her mate then kills him. A praying mantis loves her mate then eats him. Women love my dad,…

— Christopher Titus

A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child…

— Jay Neugeboren

I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can…

— Will Cuppy

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

— Junot Diaz

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow.…

— Salma Hayek

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is…

— Morley Safer

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man…

— O. Henry

America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she…

— Ronald Wright

By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of…

— Karen Abbott

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

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance…

— George Bernard Shaw

I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in…

— Anne Bronte

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

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

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

“A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon —a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Katrina hated to see the widows in black. They struck her as relics of their own making, frozen in permanent deference to…

— Omar El Akkad

Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called…

— Noam Chomsky

When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming…

— Khaled Hosseini

“He left for his day at the library. Today is research day. When he got there, he went directly to the microfiche…

— Jean Holloway

The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

— Chath Piersath

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.

— William Somervile

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

— Dolores Ibarruri