Woes Quotes

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Buddha

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Equality, Learn

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron

Life, Age, Alone

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Wisdom, Put

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
Miguel de Cervantes

Miserable, Comfort, Partners

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Emile M. Cioran

Power, Hell, Poison

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
Pierre Corneille

Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.
Ron Fournier

Deep, Country, Office

After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.
James Wolcott

Faith, Beauty, Power

Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.
Jennifer Granholm

Future, Economic, Hoping

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.
Niklaus Wirth

Lack, Management, Indeed

For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.
Bill Keller

Time, Business, Heart

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
Joan D. Vinge

Age, Old, Wonderful

Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Menander

Riches, Cover, Multitude

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.
Sherwood Boehlert

Government, Democracy, Through

I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
Lars von Trier

Mother, Down, After

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
Samuel Daniel

Love, Best, Full

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

Words, Light, Tell

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
Christoph Martin Wieland

Long, Pleasure, Source

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