Widows Quotes - Page 6

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

  Edward Abbey

  Golden, Married, Ass

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

  Eliza R. Snow

  People, Tears, Cry

  Eliza R. SNOW (1856). “Poems, religious, historical, and political”, p.136

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• Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.

  George Washington

  Heart, Hands, Giving

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.374

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• If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Church, Generations

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• Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.

  Kumari Jayawardena

  War, Women, Being Single

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• I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it

  Anne Bronte

  Stars, Fall, Thinking

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Orphan, Fronts

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Adventure, Aunt

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 1 (1884)

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• Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.

  Jack Parsons

  Dark, Men, Abuse

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• 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’.

  Kevin Hearne

  Running, Fighting, Eyebrows

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.221, Del Rey

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• Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.

  Charles Perrault

  Daughter, Mother, Character

  Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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• With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . . On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Girl, Mother, Inspiration

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda". Book by Swami Vivekananda, Volume 7, Conversations And Dialogues,

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• I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the hearts of widows, orphans, and patriots to be broken, and their wrongs left without redress? No! I invoke the genius of our Constitution. I appeal to the patriotism of Americans to stop this unlawful and unholy procedure; and pray that God may defend this nation from the dreadful effects of such outrages.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Heart, America

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• You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dream, Humor

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.56, Rodale

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• TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Men, Enemy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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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

  Two, Shining, Poverty

  Saint John Chrysostom, Paul William Harkins (1963). “Baptismal Instructions”, p.185, Paulist Press

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

  John Stark

  Sleep, Usa Patriotism, Flags

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• 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?

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Prayer, Humble

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• Drones are sort of the perfect weapon for a country that doesn't want to go to war. It only - there's no fingerprint. There's no direct involvement. There's human beings killed on the other end. You never see them. You don't have to worry about them. You don't have to meet their widows. It's sort of an antiseptic warfare.

  Mark Shields

  Country, War, Perfect

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. I've been hanging out a bit with Lou Reed, and he's the complete opposite. He's into technology and is kind of like a toddler, compared to me, who's like an old 19th-century widow or something.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Reading, Technology, Iphone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero inflation or pays no income tax during years of 5 percent inflation. Either way, she is 'taxed' in a manner that leaves her no real income whatsoever. Any money she spends comes right out of capital. She would find outrageous a 100 percent income tax but doesn't seem to notice that 5 percent inflation is the economic equivalent.

  Warren Buffett

  Zero, Real, Years

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• Not only do we have the handsomest voice cast out there, along with the very lovely Black Widow, we also have an incredible voice cast, in terms of being able to handle the drama, the fun, the excitement and the promise that Marvel brings to every single one of our projects, which is epic adventure on the human spirit.

  Jeph Loeb

  Fun, Drama, Adventure

  Source: collider.com

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• The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.

  Mark Steyn

  People, Three, Use

  Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.218, Regnery Publishing

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Women, Heart, Home

  'Puck of Pook's Hill' (1906) 'Harp Song of the Dane Women'

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• We beg one hour of death, that neither she
  With widow's tears may live to bury me,
  Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear
  My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

  Ovid

  Death, Tears, May

  Ovid (1836). “Ovid”, p.259

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