Quotes About Widow

Mandelstam was, one is tempted to say, a modern Orpheus: sent to hell, he never returned, while his widow dodged across one-sixth of the earth's surface, clutching the saucepan with his songs rolled up inside, memorizing them by night in the event they were found by Furies with a search warrant. These are our metamorphoses, our myths.

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

17For the Lord your God is *God supreme and Lord supreme,-d the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who shows no favor and takes no bribe, 18but upholds the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and befriends the stranger, providing him with food and clothing.—19You too must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

27But do not neglect the Levite in your community, for he has no hereditary portion as you have. 28*Every third year-a you shall bring out the full tithe of your yield of that year, but leave it within your settlements. 29Then the Levite, who has no hereditary portion as you have, and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow in your settlements shall come and eat their fill, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the enterprises you undertake.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Legally I am a 'widow' — that is the box I must check. But beyond that — I am not sure that I ­exist.

A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In

Habbershaw, a kindly widow with six cats and one Chihuahua named Max—who was a nervous wreck—probably because the cats were all bigger than he was. Mrs.

Wie lieb und luftig perlt die Blase Der Witwe Klicko in dem Glase.

Tal como dijo Aretino, «el llanto desconsolado resulta aceptable solo cuando la viuda que lo produce es dueña de un poder que influye, o más aún, es crucial en la vida de los cortesanos. Pero si quien gobierna ha perdido la mayor parte de su poder, el lamento se convierte en una queja insoportable». Lucrecia

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 .

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

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.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

In times of war thousands of virtuous women are deprived of their husbands and tens of thousands of helpless children of their fathers. … They are torn from their embraces by the cruelty of war, and they have no fathers left but their Father in heaven…. Surely Christians cannot be active in such measures without incurring the displeasure of God, who styles himself as the father of the fatherless and judge and avenger of the widow.

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

You can't be a member of the Sinful Ladies Society if you have a husband. The original members, like me, are all old maids. We're finally starting to allow widows in, but their husbands have to be dead for at least ten years. Why ten years? Seems to take that long to deprogram them from silly man thinking.

Probably my conception of a widow was formed in my early boyhood in Ohio, from a character called Widow Rowley, who lived across the street. I have known others since, but the conception has not been entirely obliterated, so there is always an element of shock when I meet a female who has been labeled widow and I find that she has some teeth, does not constantly mutter to herself, and can walk without a cane.

Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;Here's to the widow of fifty;Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean,And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. Let the toast pass—Drink to the lass;I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.

Many had predicted that Robert would devote himself to Mrs. Pontellier when he arrived. Since the age of fifteen, which was eleven years before, Robert each summer at Grand Isle had constituted himself the devoted attendant of some fair dame or damsel. Sometimes it was a young girl, again a widow; but as often as not it was some interesting married woman.

Ante una tormenta del desierto, ante las fauces del león, ante un ejército formado por decenas de miles de soldados -dijo Atila-, se puede cabalgar sin miedo. Pero ante la ira de una viuda...

Neither maid, widow, nor wife.

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

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