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Take example
by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all
your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy.
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
The
comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps
up a wife's spirits.
-- John Gay
1688-1732, British
Playwright, Poet
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
1898-1961, American Writer
He that
outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself
disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and
fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he
has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set
his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the
future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled
course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands
suspended and motionless.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
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Widow. The
word consumes itself.
-- Sylvia Plath
1932-1963, American Poet
Sorrow for a
husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
-- English Proverb
Sayings of British Origin
Widows are
divided into two classes -- the bereaved and relieved.
-- Victor Robinson
I'm only upset
that I'm not a widow. [On her ex-husband Tom Arnold]
-- Roseanne
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