Best Woe Proverbs
365 Woe quotes by 249 unique authors
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A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning…
— Eminem
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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
— Homer
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
— Victor Hugo
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put…
— Thomas Huxley
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Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the…
— John Piper
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
— Alexander Pope
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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
— Friedrich Schiller
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say…
— Voltaire
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The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner.…
— Ellen G. White
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Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just…
— Robbie Williams
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Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.
— Niklaus Wirth
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After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of…
— James Wolcott
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When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welking with his big-swoln…
— William Shakespeare
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If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad,…
— William Shakespeare
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Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice…
— Dante Alighieri
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Woe be to him that reads but one book.
— George Herbert
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Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Man was made for joy and woe Then when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine…
— William Blake
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I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed…
— Herman Melville
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Dancing through life Swaying and sweeping And always keeping cool Life is faught less When you're thoughtless Those who don't try Never look foolish Dancing…
— Stephen Schwartz
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But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets…
— Herman Melville
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I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes,…
— John Clare
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