Woe Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Woe


An Iliad of woes. Demosthenes. 387. 12. Diodorus Siculus. De Quincey—Confessions of an Opium Eater. Pt. II.	1
Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. Robert Greene—Sonnet.	2
When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. Herrick—Sorrows Succeed.	3
And woe succeeds to woe. Homer—Iliad. Bk. XVI. L. 139. Pope’s trans.	4
Long exercised in woes. Homer—Odyssey. Bk. I. L. 2. Pope’s trans.	5
Woe unto you,… for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin. Matthew. XXIII. 23.	6
So perish all whose breast ne’er learned to glow For other’s good or melt at other’s woe. Pope—Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady. Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XVIII. 269.	7
I was not always a man of woe. Scott—Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto II. St. 12.	8
One woe doth tread upon another’s heel So fast they follow. Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 7. L. 165.	9
All these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our time to come. Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 52.	10
Woes, cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other’s heel. Young—Night Thoughts. Night III. L. 63.	11