Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Sylvia Plath

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Siri Hustvedt

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]

Mark Twain

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

Ethel Mumford

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

George R. R. Martin

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

Honore de Balzac

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Imelda Marcos

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

George Herbert

Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]

Charles Spurgeon

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

Alan Kulwicki

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

Amy Powell

Defense, defense, defense. That's been our motto this year.

Al Capone

Public service is my motto.

Ike Taylor

Bend, don't break. That was our motto today.

Amy Poehler

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

Rudolph Valentino

What is your motto Mr. Valentino? Live and Let Live.

Petra Kelly

Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'

Nas

Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow?

Andre Gide

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Red Buttons

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

John Berger

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Trenton Lee Stewart

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma