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“Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.”

World Whole Wife Internet My Wife Whole World Widows Wasted Time

Author:Mick Ralphs

“I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to the computer.”

Want Wells Wife Computer Passionate My Wife Widows

Author:Scott Simon

“Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.”

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

“I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!”

Knows Men Firsts Mean Children Mother Girl House Wife Bears Husband Married Daughter Affection Teens Another Man Gave Up Widows Marrying Polygamy Stepfathers Marrying Her

Author:T. B. H. Stenhouse

“It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.”

Two Enough Play Mother Strong Roles Wife Duty Easier Exercise Authority Contrary Obligation Strong Enough Widows Good Mother Good Wife

Author:Honore de Balzac

“To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that small regard to rule Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school; That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, And awes some thirty infants as she knits; Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay Some trifling price for freedom through the day. At this good matron's hut the children meet, Who thus becomes the mother of the street.”

Mind Children Stills School Mother Poor Pay Class Study Wife Streets Regard Patient Busy Humble Thirty Awe Infant Deaf Widows Trifling Huts

Book:The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author

“One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.”

Wife Dignity Widows

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.”

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Author:Jacquelyn Mitchard

“Persecute them. ... Let them be put to shame and perish. ... Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ... Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.”

Children Wife Mercy Shame Scary Favour Widows Vagabonds Fatherless

Author:Wiley Drake

“The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.”

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Author:Sacha Guitry

“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.”

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.”

Wife Hero Coward Cowardice Widows Widowed

Author:Dolores Ibarruri