Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.
Lao tzu
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If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
Horace Mann
If I were told that what I shall write will be read in twenty years by the children of today and that they will weep and smile over it and will fall in love with life, I would devote all my life and all my strengths to it.
Leo Tolstoy
I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.
Margaret Cho
Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
Og Mandino
And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, there was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died.
Pierre jean De Beranger
Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.
Corazon Aquino
Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?
Anna Quindlen
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
Anne Bronte
I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep.
P.a. Caron De Beaumarchais
Wales is an old land with wounds that weep in hills. They wept before in the bodies of men and in the hearts of women and time will never heal them.
Brian Harris
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
J. R. R. Tolkien
So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr.
Philip K. Dick
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
Joyce Cary
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
Alexander Smith
I was just blessing God. As a mother, I was terrified. But now, instead of weeping and thinking that could have been my daughter, now I'm weeping to thank God she's with me and praying for the others.
Juanita Johnson
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Jean Giraudoux
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. 'What!' said one of his disciples, 'you weep at the death of an enemy?' 'Ah, 'tis true,' replied the great Stoic; 'but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.'
Ambrose Bierce
Maureen and I started weeping when we saw the Rodrigo boots. We're the criers in the bunch, and pretty soon everyone had tears in her eyes.
Kate Fisher
Said 'I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.' He just kept saying that over and over and was weeping quite profusely.
Roy Williamson
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil Gibran
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
I got my kids off the school bus and every other kid on the bus was weeping and crying because they came though the fire and smoke.
Ron Parker
The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all - he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.
Charles Farrar Browne
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;/ When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. / Mother's wag, pretty boy, / Father's sorrow, father's joy.
Dr. Robert Greene
Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame's ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
If we have a tree like this red bud we can do basically the same. Any type of flower or leaves that are exposed, this is a weeping red bud. This sheet may not be big enough. Anything to just kind of cover it up, you probably want the sheet to go all the way to the ground to hold the heat in.
Brian Jervis
Do not weep for me.
Thomas Starr King
He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.
Richard Barnfield
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
Anna Letitia Barbauld
LAW, n. Once Law was sitting on the bench, And Mercy knelt a-weeping. 'Clear out!' he cried, 'disordered wench! Nor come before me creeping. Upon your knees if you appear, 'Tis plain your have no standing here.' Then Justice came. His Honor cried: '_Your_ status? -- devil seize you!' '_Amica curiae,_' she replied -- 'Friend of the court, s.
Ambrose Bierce
This is a country which proves that it can make a difficult decision, a democratic decision, without fear, and that it is not afraid of threats and protests, ... On the other hand, it's a democratic country, in the sense that we can also protest, and we can also weep.
Shimon Peres
It can be extended without difficulty. It will be used when needed, if the market does not need it we will not weep.
Claude Mandil
God is dead! Heaven is empty - Weep, children, you no longer have a father.
Gerard De Nerval
Do not weep, do not notify my men of my death. Beat the drum, blow the trumpet, wave the flag for advance. We are still fighting; finish the enemy to the last one.
Admiral Yi Sun Shin
The freedom of authentic masculinity is an amazing thing to see. It produces a "divine elasticity" in men. Finally they can lead with firmness, then submit with humility. They can challenge with a cutting edge, then encourage with enthusiasm. They can fight aggressively for just causes, then moments later weep over suffering.
Bill Hybels
That play and those performances had a huge impact. It just changed the whole trajectory of my life. When [Jones] kills that woman at the end of the play, this simple-minded man who is gentle with a little mouse, it just spoke to my little girl's heart. I was the last one out of the theater. I was sitting there weeping.
Angela Bassett
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
P.a. Caron De Beaumarchais
I took the screenplay to the pub with me one Sunday afternoon and started reading it. By about page 60 I was weeping into my pint of lager. I was very moved by it and laughing out loud as well.
Joe Wright
I knew my words were strong, but I didn't think they'd have such an impact. As I was speaking, all I could think about were the weeping mothers who had lost their sons and husbands in the war and all the hungry Afghan children waiting to die in the Pakistani refugee camps.
Malalai Joya
The beautiful contorted shapes that the branches of the weeping maples bring to the winter garden and the beautiful winter silhouettes of all the maples add fine texture and interest. Add to all of this the brilliant fall foliage for which the Japanese maples are noted and gardeners can have an ever changing palette of color all year long.
Nancy Fiers
Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon.
Robert Herrick
The options are to go home and weep or to have someone review (the report).
David Scott
The god of justice will not weep if you find him not guilty.
Reid Weingarten
Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.
Richard Crashaw
Here on this bend, the house was burning. Families lived there, ... This child was looking back to his residence, the mother was weeping and the father was shaking his head, asking, 'How could this be? How could this be?'
Cecil Murray
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandberg
People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.
John Cheever
If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conqu.
Rosalynn Carter
While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight, I'll fight to the very end!
William Booth
People here, they get a pair of socks, a new pair of underwear, and they cry. They start weeping over the simplest thing, that we take for granted, because they're absolutely devastated. They've lost everything, ... Being able to meet such a simple need and to see the gratitude on their faces is the greatest reward you can ever have.
Michael Bush
I have a theory that great things will find their way into the world. Women were weeping at screenings. That was a real wake-up call.
Trudie Styler
That's one of those moments I think everyone remembers where they were. I was sitting right behind O.J. Simpson. It was dramatic and powerful. You had so many emotions coming together from the families of the victims, families of O.J. His son was weeping. The emotions were just palpable. And it was dramatic.
Linda Deutsch
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.
Janet Frame
There was an over-under bet on how many times Nancy would cry during the week. I think I beat her. I was weeping all week.
Christina Kim
I started writing about the Florida Legislature, and there are two possibilities for response to the Florida Legislature. One is weeping uncontrollably and jumping off a tall building, and the other is to laugh. So you might as well laugh.
Diane Roberts
There's just hundreds of kids just weeping right now for Peter and all he stood for.
Carl Moore
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
It is still a shock. It seems like a bad dream and that when I wake up I will see him. But all I find are people weeping.
John Garang
I've been sympathetic to the mayor. I heard the entire interview. ... My heart goes out to Ray Nagin. He was weeping for the same people I've wept for.
Roger White
Man, we were weeping, ... I've never seen so much destruction.
David Ross
We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear. All is grace. If the Eternal is the Eternal, the last word for each one of us belongs to Him. This is what I should have told this Jewish child. But I could only embrace him weeping.
Francois Mauriac
It's going to do an upper respiratory irritation, you are going to sneeze your eyes out, you're going to weep, you're going to cough and it's going to last for a while.
Dr. Raoult Ratard
She was past weeping, wrapped in the ineffable solitude of grief.
Lady Mabell Airlie
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Charles de Montesquieu
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. . . . I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, / Love and desire and hate: / I think they have no portion in us after / We pass the gate.
Ernest Dowson
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