A Quote by Joseph Joubert

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

Joseph Joubert

Quote Topics

Dignity Once Widow Wife

Quote Author

Joseph Joubert
French - Writer
May 7, 1754 - May 4, 1824

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Martha Griffiths

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Dolores Ibarruri

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to the computer.

Scott Simon

A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.

Jay Neugeboren

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

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

Joyce Carol Oates

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 should think I kept myself alive.

Joyce Carol Oates

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dominique de Menil

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

Courtney Love

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

Samuel Johnson

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

William Adams

Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

Noam Chomsky

I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.

Charles Grandison Finney

My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning.

Bikram Choudhury

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

Gary Ryan Blair

A Quote by Joseph Joubert

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors