Widows Quotes
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So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow? If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks. — James Canon
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
— Jane Austen
sent to eight widows of men killed in the
— Ken Follett
War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.
— Samuel B. Pettengill
It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.
— Cassandra Clare
Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.
— Ihara Saikaku
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
— Benjamin Franklin
One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
— Joseph Joubert
Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.
— Victor Robinson
The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows
— Barbara Kingsolver
Children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
— Mary Borden
Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.
— Benjamin Franklin
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[T]he departing world leaves behind ... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.
— Alexander Herzen
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,
— Chris Christie
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
— Imelda Marcos
It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
— William Ralph Inge
Never abandon widows, widowers and orphans.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You never hear widows voice the sentiment, but I could stave off companionship indefinitely. Sex, not so much.
— Abby Fabiaschi
Be kind to the poor,caring to widows,
and just to all. — Matshona Dhliwayo
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
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.
— Jean De La Bruyere
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At one dinner he [George Smith Patton] toasted his officers' wives with the words: 'My, what pretty widows you're going to make.
— Andrew Roberts
Widows don't accidentally flash their underwear at anyone.
— Taylor Jenkins Reid
In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows.
— David Mitchell
In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It's never too late to start over!
— Lynne Gentry
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 orphan.
— Clarence W. Barron
Even though ashrams ... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.
— Deepa Mehta
people who had neglected my acquaintance during my widowhood. Widows were skeletons at the feast, dampening everyone else's pleasure,
— Deanna Raybourn
The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.
— Thomas Keneally
During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.
— Charles Todd
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
The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Care for him who shall have borne the battle
— Abraham Lincoln
Not so very long ago, certainly well into the Thirties, a lady companion was a normal feature of life for widows or lone spinsters.
— Laurie Graham
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
— Honore De Balzac
I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.
— Colonel Sanders
People didn't realize how important it was to hug the single people in church - particularly the widows.
— Kris Knorr
Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
— Siri Hustvedt
G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next.
— Miroslav Volf
Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.
— William Somervile
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.[Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.] — George Herbert
Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Ah, but then I would be a widow. No one insults widows.
— Sarah MacLean
Home was a condominium on the fifteenth floor of a high-rise, a sort of filing cabinet for widows and young professionals.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.
— Ethel Mumford
The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.
— William Feather
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
— Jodi Picoult
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.
— Tobsha Learner
Newspapers routinely refer to the missing men as 'disappeared persons', and their waiting wives are the 'half-widows'.
— Basharat Peer
There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Young widows still bide their time.
— Josh Billings
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 hell.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change.
— Diane Dettmann
So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.
— Michelangelo
I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.
— Paddy Chayefsky