He who marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish.
Spanish Proverb
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I'm a football widow, I guess, except for nights like this.
Jackie Castle
I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
Ruth Rendell
Then I just stayed, and she said she was a widow.
Bill Stetson
I want the troops home, and I want the president to tell me why my husband had to go to Iraq, and why I had to become a widow at age 26, and why my son will never meet his daddy.
John House
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
Dolores Ibarruri (pasionaria)
Little Charlie was delivered by a C-section and not expected to live. I'm a widow with no children . . . I'm just a small time (cat) shower . . . This is like losing three children in one fell swoop.
Iris Tanner
By 1835, Mozart's star was rising and any relic connected to him was sought after. We don't know whether his widow was given money for the manuscript or whether it was a sweetener for some kind of financial favor.
Chris Banks
When I arrived at the broken pip, after crawling several yards under my house in the mud, grumpily; the black widow spiders noted my ire and fled. So, I was able to fix the leak unharmed by neurotoxic venom.
Owen J. Mcclain
[Chelsea had borrowed heavily from financial institutions, principally to fund stadium development. Ruth Giste, the widow of the late club director Matthew Harding, had also demanded repayment of a significant sum loaned to the club.] Fans did not know that in January the club had mortgaged, if you will, the TV revenues, ... It borrowed against the TV revenues that were to be handed out in August.
Bruce Buck
Doctors refer to the left anterior descending artery as the widow maker. It was about 90 percent blocked. He needed to get this done much sooner than later. I talked to him today and he was in good spirits. He'll be fine.
Todd Musburger
What historians will look at is her contributions in these other things. Historians will understand and explore the full dimensions and not just the perfectly made up, dignified widow.
Mary Frances Berry
Breaks the social compact that gives government its legitimacy. ... It used to be that if a widow didn't want to sell her home to a developer, she didn't have to. ... The government was there to protect her. Now government has become the thug.
Tom Mcclintock
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.
Scott Simon
That wasn't right. That old trailer wasn't in no condition for anyone to be in, let alone a 99-year-old widow. I mean, there were rats in it, you know.
Sue Dorster
I'm only upset that I'm not a widow. [On her ex-husband Tom Arnold].
Roseanne Barr
This is death / To die and know it. This is the Black Widow, death.
Robert Lowell
I know you are a woman of sorrowful spirit, yet be comforted, though you sorrows be great for you husband going out of the world, yet your pains shall be the less in bringing your child into the world; you shall be a joyful mother, though you be a sad widow; God hath many mercies in store for you; the prayer of a dying husband for you, will not be lost.
Christopher Love
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Paul Wolterbeek
The problem, though, is with the precedent, ... If you were a firefighter on 9-11 and you ran into the World Trade Center, your widow got $7 million or $8 million. But if you were a firefighter and you ran into a burning building on 9-12, your death benefit was something like $250,000.
Steven Brill
She also gave impetus to the move to start the holiday. They could say no to John Conyers, but it wasn't the same as saying no to King's widow. She was a powerful force in getting that legislation through. She provided the opportunity for politicians to favor it without seeming to favor the agitators.
Joseph Lowery
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.
Nancy Mitford
When I spoke with his widow today, she spoke touchingly about how important he felt this work was and how much he felt he was making a difference. His loss touches us all.
Peter Harder
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
Jackie Kennedy
We noticed there was an increase in deaths among our visitors to the island and police were wondering how to take care of this widow who was now thousands of miles from home and here all alone. So out of this need.
Liana Soong
It's heartbreaking to leave a widow and four children.
Jerome Gourley
WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.
Ambrose Bierce
We're pleased with the recognition that the court says that it's a pretty significant burden to have a widow hauled into court in a situation like this.
Stephen Nelson
In most instances, the most sound advice to offer a recent widow or widower is to do nothing drastic - and very little is more drastic than selling one's home.
Francis Degen
Denise has yet to be provided, as Mike's widow, with any financial information, accounting or distributions at all since Mike's death, which is obviously inappropriate and is the subject of the separate proceeding.
David Voss
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