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The wildest woe is love!

Posted by Nabil Medawar in Words of Wisdom, tags: woe

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
A wife’s advice is not worth much, but woe to the husband who refuses to take it. ~ Welsh Proverb
Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief? ~ William Blake
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.~ Sir Philip Sidney
Man was made for joy and woe; and when this we rightly know, through the world we safely go. ~ William Blake
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? ~ Sidney J. Harris
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. ~ Orison Swett Marden
Teach me to feel another’s woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me. ~ Alexander Pope
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible. ~ H. L. Mencken
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. ~ Pearl Bailey
There’s a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! ~ Robert Gilfillan
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe that found me poor at first, and keep me so. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
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.~ Goethe
When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who follow. ~ French Proverb
Woe is he who claims to have found happiness. ~ Iranian Proverb
Woe to him who sits upon a branch. ~ Croatian Proverb
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. ~ William J. Durant
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it. ~ Goethe
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. ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Woe to the high spirited bride whose mother-in-law is still alive. ~ Congolese Proverb
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. ~ Voltaire
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life. ~ Joseph Conrad
Woe to those who pray but are heedless in their prayer, who make a show of piety and give no alms to the destitute. ~ The Koran
Woe to you, my Princess, when I come… you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. ~ Sigmund Freud
Woe, woe, woe… in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already. ~ Raymond Chandler
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe. ~ Homer