“ The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. ”
- John Gay- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died. ”
- Sir Henry Wotton- Copy
“ Widows are divided into two classes — the bereaved and relieved. ”
- Victor Robinson- Copy
“ 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… ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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