Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short. – English Proverb
Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if theyve kept a public house, Sammy. – Charles Dickens
Widow. The word consumes itself. – Sylvia Plath
Widows are divided into two classes — the bereaved and relieved. – Victor Robinson
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 mans approval. – Helen Rowland
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. Im 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
He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died. – Sir Henry Wotton
