Woe Quotes - Page 18

• Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fall, Giving, Weight

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.149, Shambhala Publications

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• What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Animal

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• Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

  Hafez

  Fate, Yield, Dupes

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• The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Mean, People, Voting

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• Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Blessed, Grief, Soul

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• When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

  Laurence Sterne

  Patience, Men, Ideas

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.215

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• Lost is our freedom
  When we submit to women so:
  Why do we need 'em
  When, in their best, they work our woe?

  Thomas Campion

  Freedom, Women, Needs

  Thomas Campion (1889). “The Works of Dr. Thomas Campion”

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• There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

  Samuel Richardson

  Taken, Light, Optimism

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.1863, Simon and Schuster

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• Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Liberty, Headstrong

  William Shakespeare, James Orchard Halliwell- Phillipps (1855). “The complete works of Shakspere, with historical and analytical introductions to each play, also notes explanatory by J.O. Halliwell and other commentators, illustr. by portraits of actors of the age. [3 vols. With] The doubtful plays, with notes by H. Tyrrell”, p.210

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• Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.
  There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
  But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sea, Sky

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Comedy of Errors: Third Series”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Spiders, Steel, Links

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• There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any.

  Roger Williams

  Prayer, Sea, Practice

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Heaven, Three, Tails

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Land, Politics

  1592-3 Third Citizen. Richard III, act 2, sc.3, l.11.

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• Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Positive Thinking, Lost Ones

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• The many woes that afflict out nation are rooted in the morally bankrupt paradigms of socialism, interventionism, and empire that have held our nation in their grip for decades and that the only real solution to such woes is libertarianism.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Real, Empires, Socialism

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• Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.

  Adam Clarke

  Running, Men, Refuse

  Adam Clarke (1837). “The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments”, p.238

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• Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.

  David Brooks

  Community, President, Insult

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. These poor souls were born sick and tired.

  Louis Sullivan

  Depression, Tired, People

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• We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.

  May Sarton

  Grief, Writing, Thinking

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• But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.

  Walter Scott

  Country, Men, Tears

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.123

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• Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel.

  Paul the Apostle

  Ifs

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

  Ishmael

  Gorges, Madness, Invert

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• Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach
  my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.

  Clara Barton

  Mother, Prayer, Father

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• God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Grind, Retribution, Mills

  William Rounseville Alger (1874). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.123

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