Widows Quotes

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.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Madge: I don't know why I keep shouting at them. The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later. ~ The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe

But I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.

Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]

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.

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.

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.

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.

Handsome widows,
after a twelve-month,
enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.

I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politics, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hyperchondriacs of the dead body of ideology and morality.

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

Here, take this, she would say, take this, and tell me where he is. Tell me whether he's dead or alive, so I can walk as his widow or his wife. No one would, or could, tell her, and so she continued to cook, and to learn new things all the while searching for an answer among the outcasts. The way he carried his body, the way he walked in my life, Tatiana thought, declared that he was the only man I had ever loved, and he knew it. And until I was alone without him, I thought it was all worth it.

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.

Fidel Castro looked after the poor, he looked after the weak, he looked after the widow, he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective.

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.