Widows Quotes

159 quotes by 135 authors

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt. — Samuel B. Pettengill
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
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You… — Thomas Sowell
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
It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows… — Paddy Chayefsky
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows. — William Feather
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices. — Benjamin Franklin
To mark the 0-year anniversary of 9/, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my… — Mark Sanchez
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with… — Adrienne Rich
I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all,… — Chaka Fattah
There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug… — George W. Bush
If one accepts the 24thÂ and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take… — Wendell Berry
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
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. — Henry Fielding

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