WIDOW

Related Subjects: Marriage, Wife

1. These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.—ADDISON, The Spectator
   

2. I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.—Bible, Job 29:13
   

3. Honour is like a widow, won
   With brisk attempt and putting on;
   With ent'ring manfully, and urging,
   Not slow approaches, like a virgin.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

4. Be wery careful o' vidders all your life.—DICKENS, Pickwick Papers
   

5. I have heerd how many ord'nary women one vidder's equal to, in pint o' comin' over you. I think it's five-and-twenty, but I don't rightly know vether it a'n't more.—DICKENS, Pickwick Papers
   

6. We'll play at widows, and we'll pass our time
   Railing against the perfidy of man.—W. S. GILBERT, Pygmalion and Galatea
   

7. A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.—HORACE GREELEY, Letter to Dr. Griswold
   

8. The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?—MARTIAL, Epigrams
   

9. And I'd rather be bride to a lad gone down
   Than widow to one safe home.—EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Keen
   

10. And here do I see what creatures widows are in weeping for their husbands and then presently leaving off; but I cannot wonder at it, the cares of the world taking place of all other passions.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary
    

11. No crafty widows shall approach my bed;
    Those are too wise for bachelors to wed.—POPE, January and May
    

12. Be wary how you marry one that hath cast her rider, I mean a widow.—Proverb
    

13. Who marries a widow and two daughters marries three thieves.—Proverb
    

14. Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.—Proverb
    

15. A good occasion of courtship is when the widow returns from the funeral.—Proverb
    

16. He who marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish.—Proverb
    

17. A buxom widow must be either married, buried, or shut up in a convent.—Proverb
    

18. Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly,
    I'll wear the willow garland for his sake.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

19. Thou art a widow; yet thou art a mother,
    And hast the comfort of thy children left thee.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

20. A married man can do anything he likes if his wife don't mind. A widower can't be too careful.—BERNARD SHAW, Misalliance
    

21. He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter,
    But he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her.—NATHANIEL SMITH, Quakers' Spiritual Court
    

22. He first deceased; she for a little tried
    To live without him, liked it not, and died.—SIR HENRY WOTTON, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife