Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.

Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.