Famous quotes containing the words merry and/or widow:
“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“A widow has two duties of a contradictory nature—she is a mother, and she ought to exert a father’s power.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)