Woe Quotes - Page 9

• I walked around for a while angry, in a bad mood. ... 'Woe is me.' I've gotten over that. It doesn't do any good.

  Peyton Manning

  Football, Woe Is Me, Bad Mood

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• Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Nurse, Looks, Mercy

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Measure for Measure”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

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• Be all of you subject one to another having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles, that you may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct

  Polycarp

  Names, Sobriety, May

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• Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.

  Henry Kirke White

  Christian, Sorrow, Christianity

  Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey (1823). “The remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, late of St. John's college, Cambridge: with an account of his life”, p.148

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• You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.

  Joni Mitchell

  Sadness, Garden, Grows

  Song: Nathan La Franeer, Album: Song to a Seagull

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• We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

  Julian of Norwich

  Goodness, Goodness Of God

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

  Alexander Pope

  Midnight, Bears, Misery

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.214

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• Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.

  John Fletcher

  Dream, Grief, Sadness

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Prophetess. Queen of Corinth. Tragedy of Bonduca. Knight of the Burning Pestle”, p.240

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• When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Communication, Risk

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• I think in the real world that's probably correct. That would give federal matching funds. It would mean no more ballot access woes.

  William Weld

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Running, Burden

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

  Steve Earle

  Home, Worry, Mountain

  Song: The Mountain, Album: The Mountain

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• Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.

  Lucretius

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1898). “Lucretius On the Nature of Things”, p.8

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• With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Enemy, Trails, Without Hope

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.293, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Perfect, Faithful

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• Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

  George Eliot

  Joy, Fine, Thread

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6138, Delphi Classics

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• Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Men, Woe Is Me, Names

  Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Way To Arcady”

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• Joy and woe are woven fine.

  William Blake

  Joy, Woven, Fine

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Unity, Done

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• Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Joy, Bitter, Remembered

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• Too young for woe, though not for tears.

  Washington Irving

  Tears, Youth, Young

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• Rejoice, and men will seek you;
  Grieve, and they turn and go,
  They want full measure of all your pleasure,
  But they do not need your woe.
  Be glad, and your friends are many;
  Be sad, and you lose them all,--
  There are none to decline your nectar'd wine,
  But alone you must drink life's gall.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Friendship, Wine, Men

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

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• Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

  John Dryden

  Sight, Decay, Pity

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1745, Delphi Classics

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• But poverty, with most who whimper forth
  Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
  The effect of laziness, or sottish write.

  William Cowper

  Writing, Self, Long

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.233

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• Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
  The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
  So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
  For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

  Alexander Pope

  Pride, Proud, Fool

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.31

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