Widows Quotes · Page 4

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

If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.

— Charles Stanley

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Josh Billings

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

— William Ralph Inge

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

— Christina Stead

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who…

— Guru Nanak

A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist…

— Islom Karimov

Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile,…

— Yann Martel

It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary…

— Honore de Balzac

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow…

— Vincent Price

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these…

— Carlos Fuentes

The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and…

— Frank Zappa

In the hands of [God's] children, it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the naked. it gives…

— John Wesley

Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they…

— Al-Ghazali

“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When…

— Anonymous

To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that…

— George Crabbe

“In a socialist society, people are always motivated to achieve unity and the truest form of freedom—Organising themselves and coming to help…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income…

— Warren Buffett

If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions.…

— Wendell Berry

Here, take this, she would say, take this, and tell me where he is. Tell me whether he's dead or alive, so…

— Paullina Simons

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

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

— Michelangelo

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

“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

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

— Ihara Saikaku

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

— Alexander Herzen

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

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

— Tobsha Learner

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow,

— John Stark

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

— George Santayana