Sayings about Widows
Girls marry to please parents, widows to please themselves.~ Chinese Proverbs
He who marries a widow with three children marries four thieves.~ Danish Proverbs
Widows weep but they look for another husband.~ South American Proverb
The woman of a man without sorrows is almost a widow.~ Hungarian Proverbs
When you die, your sister’s tears will dry as time goes on, your widow’s tears will end in another’s arms, but your mother will mourn you until the day she dies.~ Arabian Proverbs
You must marry a widow while she is still mourning.~ Italian Proverbs
A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.~ Traditional Proverb
After I saw what my mother did, I will never trust a widow.~ Tunisian Proverbs
He that marries a widow will have a dead man’s head often thrown in his dish.~ Scottish Proverbs
Better the second husband of a widow than the first.~ French Proverbs
He who marries a widow also marries her debts.~ French Proverb
What is the world to a man when his wife is a widow.~ Irish Proverbs
The soldier’s wife is always a widow.~ Indian Proverbs
The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.~ Hungarian Proverb
You flirt with a widow, but do you know how her husband died?~ Togolese Proverbs
Widows comfort themselves when they remarry, widowers take revenge.~ French Proverb
The son of an old man is an orphan, and his wife is a widow.~ Lebanese Proverbs
There are three kinds of person that you must not challenge: civil servants, customers and widows.~ Chinese Proverb
No fat mouse in a widow’s house.~ Turkish Proverbs
It is easier to be a happy bachelor for a year than a widower for a month.~ Lebanese Proverb
A widow, like a widower, is a house without a roof.~ Finnish Proverbs
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.~ English Proverbs
Quotations about Widows
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit. ~ Honore de Balzac
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits. ~ John Gay
Men should think twice before making widowhood women’s only path to power. ~ Gloria Steinem
Widows and widowers like to date each other because they understand.~ Lisa Iannucci
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Young widows still bide their time. ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died. ~ Sir Henry Wotton
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man’s approval. ~ Helen Rowland
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.~ George Santayana
I’m only upset that I’m not a widow. [On her ex-husband Tom Arnold] ~ Roseanne
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Widow. The word consumes itself.~ Sylvia Plath
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.~ Dolores Ibarruri
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I’m sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Widows are divided into two classes — the bereaved and relieved.~ Victor Robinson
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch. ~ Jean de la Bruyere
A World of Widows. ~ Book preview
The book concludes with a summary of widowhood as a human rights issues and an overview of widows themselves organising for change.