Widows Quotes - Page 7

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

  Lionel

  Powerful, Black, May

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

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Military, Wife, Soldier

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Two, Work Out, Purpose

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.46, Hendrickson Publishers

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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

  Death, Numbers, Care

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• Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

  Robert Burns

  Weed, Dark, Years

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Gilbert Burns (1820). “The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.265

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• 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

  Law, Wife, Giving

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• I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.

  Faith Evans

  Trying, Able, Facts

  "Singer Faith Evans Talks Christmas Hip-Hop". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. December 21, 2005.

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• 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

  Evil, Tails, Sulfur

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• I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'.

  Stana Katic

  Book, Black, Killers

  "Stana Katic Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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

  Courtney Love

  Jobs, Rocks, People

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• War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mother, Sweet, War

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• WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Character, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2540, Delphi Classics

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

  Horace Greeley

  Men, White Man, Age

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• I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

  Kary Mullis

  Writing, Kids, Black

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• When the purpose of the appointment to ,cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law.

  Guru Nanak

  Daughter, Father, Law

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• If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .

  Guru Nanak

  Husband, Son, Bears

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• If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

  Guru Nanak

  Son, Men, Issues

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• 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.

  Guru Nanak

  Mean, Son, Night

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• The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.

  Guru Nanak

  Soul, Suffering, Sorrow

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• 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.

  Guru Nanak

  Pain, Soul, Ignorant

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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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• 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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• 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

  Hands, India, Poor

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wheels, Forgotten, Mets

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Broken, Rays

  Mahatma Gandhi (1935). “Young India, 1927-1928”

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