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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
3.
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
Steven Moffat
4.
But I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.
Ned Kelly
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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.
Saint John Chrysostom
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I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.
Ashley Judd
7.
The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.
Sacha Guitry
8.
Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah
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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.
Jackie Kennedy
10.
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
11.
Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.
Yoko Ono
12.
The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.
Sho Baraka
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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.
Courtney Love
14.
Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.
Lionel
15.
He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.
Eliza R. Snow
16.
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.
Karl Philipp Moritz
18.
Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.
Victor Robinson
19.
Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
Siri Hustvedt
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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
21.
It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
22.
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.
Frank Zappa
23.
I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
Courtney Love
24.
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.
Morley Safer
25.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson
26.
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.
Joyce Carol Oates
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children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
Mary Borden
28.
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.
Joyce Carol Oates
29.
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.
Melissa Rosenberg
30.
I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
Ruth Rendell
32.
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
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Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.
Ihara Saikaku
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As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.
George Santayana
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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.
Frank Chodorov
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Handsome widows,
after a twelve-month,
enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
Honore de Balzac
38.
Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.
Deepa Mehta
39.
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.
Paullina Simons
40.
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.
Mick Ralphs
41.
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.
Jean Baudrillard
42.
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
Jane Austen
43.
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.
Louis Farrakhan
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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
45.
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
Josh Billings
46.
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
William Ralph Inge
47.
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.
Tobsha Learner
48.
I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.
Paddy Chayefsky
49.
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.
Nancy Mitford
50.
I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.
Roseanne Barr