woe Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about woe.
“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”
- Victor Hugo
“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.”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.”
- Homer
“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.”
- Joseph Conrad
“Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.”
- James Beattie
“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.”
- John Updike
“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.”
- Joseph Conrad
“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.”
- Cowley, Abraham
“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.”
- Bailey, Gamaliel
“Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.”
- Spanish Proverb