Quotes about Woe

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. Votes: 6

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. Votes: 6

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. Votes: 6

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already. Votes: 6

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. Votes: 6

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. Votes: 6

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. Votes: 5

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. Votes: 4

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. Votes: 4

Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing. Votes: 4

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. Votes: 4

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. Votes: 4

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. Votes: 4

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. Votes: 4

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? Votes: 4

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. Votes: 4

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. Votes: 4

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. Votes: 4

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. Votes: 4

Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Votes: 4

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. Votes: 4

Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer. Votes: 4

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again. Votes: 4

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may. Votes: 4

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else? Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Woe to the conquered. Votes: 3

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate! Votes: 3

Woe to the man who offends a small child! Votes: 3

Woe to that land that's governed by a child. Votes: 3

Woe to the house where there is no chiding. Votes: 3

Woe and death to all who resist my will! Votes: 3

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting. Votes: 3

Woe be to him that reads but one book. Votes: 3

and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max. Votes: 3

Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god. Votes: 3

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall. Votes: 3

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust. Votes: 3

Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel. Votes: 3

Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president. Votes: 3

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. Votes: 3

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone. Votes: 3

'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate! Votes: 3

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment. Votes: 3

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day. Votes: 3

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed. Votes: 3

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement. Votes: 3

Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back. Votes: 3

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope! Votes: 3

Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will. Votes: 3

The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-. Votes: 3

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up. Votes: 3

Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace! Votes: 3

Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage. Votes: 3

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done. Votes: 3

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe. Votes: 3

Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain. Votes: 3

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it. Votes: 3

That's it? That's all that happens after you topple from grace? We lose our rubies and rations?" Marshall smirked. "Woe is me. Votes: 3

That's it? That's all that happens after you topple from grace? We lose our rubies and rations? Marshall smirked. Woe is me. Votes: 3

I say, `Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose,and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha! Votes: 3

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. Votes: 3

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy. Votes: 3

Fighting the Traditional Marriage is provoking God;Beheading Jesus is to lead the church without His rulership or Counsel.Woe to theme who Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit! Votes: 3

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear. Votes: 3

Woe to the Revolution when the day comes, when the people, overburdened by contributions and consumed by abuses, turn to their enemies for salvation! Votes: 3

Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind. Votes: 3

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America? Votes: 3

I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing. Votes: 3

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh. Votes: 3

Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality. Votes: 3

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again. Votes: 3

Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick. Votes: 3

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter Votes: 3

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! Votes: 3

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections Votes: 3

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured. Votes: 3

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25 Votes: 3

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields. Votes: 3

I think my dad's post-presidency, he didn't miss a beat. He didn't get into any kind of 'Woe is me.' He dusted himself off and led an incredible life since 1993. Votes: 3

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. Votes: 3

When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey. Votes: 3

Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary. Votes: 3

Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire. Votes: 3

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! Votes: 3

Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. Votes: 3

Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16)...redemption and mission are acts of love [because] those who proclaim the Gospel participate in the charity of Christ. Votes: 3

Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy. Votes: 3

Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage. Votes: 3

Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service. Votes: 3

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols! Votes: 3

Woe to the investigator so in love with his new idea that he neglects to test it rigorously against received wisdom; woe also to the investigator so in love with his old conceptions that he refuses to weigh the merits of a new insight." Votes: 3

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil...who put darkness for light and light for darkness...who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight." Issiah 5:20,21 Votes: 3

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it. Votes: 3

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system. Votes: 3

And woe succeeds woe. Votes: 0

Life protracted is protracted woe. Votes: 0

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. Votes: 0

They saw their injured country's woe. Votes: 0

Haste breeds error; error breeds woe. Votes: 0

Joy and woe are woven fine. Votes: 0

The cholerick man never wants woe. Votes: 0

The latter end of joy is woe. Votes: 0

Lord of himself; that heritage of woe! Votes: 0

Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe! Votes: 0

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe. Votes: 0

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. Votes: 0

All love's pleasure shall not match its woe. Votes: 0

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe. Votes: 0

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe. Votes: 0

Too young for woe, though not for tears. Votes: 0

I was not always a man of woe. Votes: 0

The house of laughter makes a house of woe. Votes: 0

As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. Votes: 0

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe? Votes: 0

These times of woe afford no time to woo. Votes: 0

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss! Votes: 0

Love is like whoa! Actually, it's closer to woe. Votes: 0

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years. Votes: 0

Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go. Votes: 0

It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists. Votes: 0

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe. Votes: 0

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe! Votes: 0

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe! Votes: 0

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. Votes: 0

Out of my own great woe I make my little songs. Votes: 0

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe. Votes: 0

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness. Votes: 0

Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe. Votes: 0

In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe. Votes: 0

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many. Votes: 0

The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe. Votes: 0

But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men. Votes: 0

The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling. Votes: 0

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying. Votes: 0

And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. Votes: 0

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that. Votes: 0

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone. Votes: 0

Trouble follows me wherever I go. Thing I'm in is just a sack o'woe. Votes: 0

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone. Votes: 0

Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe. Votes: 0

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough. Votes: 0

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels. Votes: 0

No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe. Votes: 0

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. Votes: 0

Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe. Votes: 0

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. Votes: 0

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Votes: 0

Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain. Votes: 0

Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides. Votes: 0

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! Votes: 0

Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year. Votes: 0

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . . Votes: 0

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come! Votes: 0

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils. Votes: 0

This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end. Votes: 0

When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. Votes: 0

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead. Votes: 0

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick. Votes: 0

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. Votes: 0

We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God. Votes: 0

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe. Votes: 0

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains. Votes: 0

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Votes: 0

Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex. Votes: 0

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal. Votes: 0

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. Votes: 0

Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe Votes: 0

But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write. Votes: 0

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible. Votes: 0

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. Votes: 0

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe. Votes: 0

Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 't is the happy that have called thee so. Votes: 0

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. Votes: 0

To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon... Votes: 0

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love. Votes: 0

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. Votes: 0

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe? Votes: 0

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? Votes: 0

The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell. Votes: 0

They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel. Votes: 0

Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread. Votes: 0

Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel Votes: 0

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. Votes: 0

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! Votes: 0

There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals...no problem. A missing duster? Crisis. Votes: 0

And you, are Ruin, the chosen Carnificem, and WOE is what you're all about, it's your purpose. Doom and Gloom. ~Caliber Creed Votes: 0

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast. Votes: 0

Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe. Votes: 0

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros. Votes: 0

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace. Votes: 0

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe. Votes: 0

We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!' Votes: 0

Running is real. It's all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free. Votes: 0

One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it. Votes: 0

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! Votes: 0

Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe? Votes: 0

Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine. Votes: 0

Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo. Votes: 0

W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say 'hullo'; Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do. How's the world a-usin' you? Votes: 0

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe. Votes: 0

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe. Votes: 0

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity. Votes: 0

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him. Votes: 0

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight. Votes: 0

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger. Votes: 0

And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe! Votes: 0

Everything on earth has happened before, nothing is new, but woe to the lovers who fail to discover a fresh blossom in every future kiss. Votes: 0

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses. Votes: 0

Late February days; and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter's woe was past; So fair the sky was and so soft the air. Votes: 0

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. Votes: 0

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies instead of the land of corpses. Votes: 0

Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope. Votes: 0

hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young Votes: 0

He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace! Votes: 0

Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought Votes: 0

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power. Votes: 0

Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning. Votes: 0

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven. Votes: 0

Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe. Votes: 0

They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield. Votes: 0

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them. Votes: 0

A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls! Votes: 0

The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know... Votes: 0

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe. Votes: 0

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery. Votes: 0

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe Votes: 0

As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present. Votes: 0

But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Votes: 0

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. Votes: 0

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency. Votes: 0

Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being Seem heavier than the human heart can bear. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe! Votes: 0

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe... Votes: 0

Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views, Life's little cares and little pains refuse? Shall he not rather feel a double share Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear? Votes: 0

The Left can play the race card incessantly without consequence or punishment, but woe to anyone else who even breathes valid opposition to their policies: Thou shall be deemed a racist. Votes: 0

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low. Votes: 0

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy. Votes: 0

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown! Votes: 0

Man was made for joy and woe Then when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine A clothing for the soul to bind. Votes: 0

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away. Votes: 0

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe. Votes: 0

Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel. Votes: 0

Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low. Votes: 0

Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair,Or but as mild as she is seeming so,Then were my hopes greater than my despair,Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe. Votes: 0

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls. Votes: 0

Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life. Votes: 0

By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom. Votes: 0

If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe. Votes: 0

If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek. Votes: 0

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin. Votes: 0

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times. Votes: 0

Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. Votes: 0