TEARS

Related Subjects: Eyes, Grief, Joy, Pain, Sorrow

1. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.—Bible, Psalm 126:5
   

2. To these crocodile tears, they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

3. The drying up a single tear has more
   Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

4. Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.—DICKENS, Great Expectations
   

5. What precious drops are those
   Which silently each other's track pursue,
   Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?—DRYDEN, The Conquest of Granada
   

6. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.—EURIPIDES, Alexander
   

7. To see stand weeping by
   A woman once embraced, will try
   The tension of a man the most austere.—THOMAS HARDY, The Contretemps
   

8. The big round tear stands trembling in her eye.—HOMER, Odyssey
   

9. My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.—THOMAS HOOD, The Song of the Shirt
   

10. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn,
    Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

11. Give smiles to those who love you less,
    But keep your tears for me.—THOMAS MOORE, When Midst the Gay I Meet
    

12. The tear down childhood's cheek that flows,
    Is like the dewdrop on the rose;
    When next the summer breeze comes by,
    And waves the bush, the flower is dry.—SCOTT, Rokeby
    

13. The big round tears
    Coursed one another down his innocent nose
    In piteous chase.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

14. What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba,
    That he should weep for her?—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

15. Like Niobe, all tears.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

16. To weep is to make less the depth of grief.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

17. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

18. Let not women's weapons, water-drops,
    Stain my man's cheeks.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

19. How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

20. And if the boy have not a woman's gift
    To rain a shower of commanded tears,
    An onion will do well for such a shift.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
    

21. O father! what a hell of witchcraft lies
    In the small orb of one particular tear.—SHAKESPEARE, A Lover's Complaint
    

22. I could lie down like a tired child,
    And weep away the life of care
    Which I have borne and yet must bear.—SHELLEY, Stanzas Written in Dejection
    

23. Of all the languages of earth in which the human kind confer
    The Master Speaker is the Tear: it is the Great Interpreter.—RIDGELY TORRENCE,
    The House of a Hundred Lights
    

24. I could not bear a mother's tears.—VERGIL, Aeneid