C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Widow
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
Alphonse Karr.
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.
La Bruyère.
Young widows still bide their time.
H. W. Shaw.
Handsome widows, after a twelvemonth, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
Balzac.
Dryden.
Gay.
Pope.
The widow who has been bereft of her children may seem in after years no whit less placid, no whit less serenely gladsome; nay, more gladsome than the woman whose blessings are still round her. I am amazed to see how wounds heal.
Charles Buxton.