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Widows Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of…
- WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked…
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- 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… — 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… — 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… — Thomas Sowell
- Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.