It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages I would always lay a wager than the man If not the wedding day is absolutely fixed on.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

It's the moms of this nation - single married widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers we're the wives we're the grandmothers we're the big sisters we're the little sisters we're the daughters. You know it's true don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch you know. I have a lot of money.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

We call that person who has lost his father an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician with great business flair and marketing ability.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone it's freaky.

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?

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.