Top 208 Widow Quotes & Sayings

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

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

It's good to be a widow in New York, because I can do something every night.

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

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.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

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

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.

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

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

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

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.

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

Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.

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

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

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.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

I was a campaign widow.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

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

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

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

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

Finding the voice of a character, no matter who it is - from Black Widow to Han Solo - is the first and most important hurdle for me to cross in any work of fiction.

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

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

As a widow and a caregiver and a single mother, I'm living the experience that New Mexicans are.

I was in Hyderabad shooting for a Telugu film with Mahesh Babu when Aamir called, saying he wanted me to play the widow Jwala in 'Mangal Pandey.'

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

'Widow' is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that.

Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.

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.

How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.

The widow’s eyebrows raised. “Ye’ve got all these nasty pooches to run around with and ye still might die?” “I’m going to go fight with a god, some demons, and a coven of witches who all want to kill me,” I said, “so it’s a distinct possibility.” “Are y’goin’ t’kill ’em back?” “I’d certainly like to.” “Attaboy,” the widow chuckled. “Off y’go, then. Kill every last one o’ the bastards and call me in the mornin’.

Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the importunity of the widow inclined a wicked and unjust judge to grant her petition (cf. Lk. 18:1 ff.). The Lord gave this parable for a special purpose ? to teach us not to faint, but to pray patiently. If an unjust judge was persuaded to grant the petition of the widow, how can God fail to incline His ear to our prayers, if we persist in imploring Him since He is the essence of lovingkindness?

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

I think 'The Avengers' is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function.

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

I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.

He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by no means a second.

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.

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.