Widow Quotes

123 quotes by 102 authors

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me… — Vivien Leigh
Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord… — Johann Arndt
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 should think I… — Joyce Carol Oates
The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended!… — Queen Victoria
If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. — David Antin
Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_. — Edward Abbey
If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation. — Charles Stanley
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
There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow! — John Stark
Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow, — John Stark
I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the… — Anne Bronte
Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as… — Vincent Price
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow. — Evan Esar
When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was — Samuel Johnson
Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the… — Clarence W. Barron
Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you. — Heidi Baker
Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer.… — Jack Parsons

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