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Widow Proverbs
The widow is just as fiery as the horse that threw her.
Malawi Proverb
What's all the world to a man when his wife is a widow.
Irish Proverb
A rich widow weeps in one eye and laughs with the other.
Portuguese Proverb
A widow, like a widower, is a house without a roof.
Finnish Proverb
After I saw what my mother did, I will never trust a widow.
Tunisian Proverb
He that woos a widow must woo her day and night.
English Proverb
Woo the widow whilst she is in weeds.
German Proverb
The soldier's wife is always a widow.
Hindi Proverb
He that marries a widow with four children marries four thieves.
Italian Proverb
The woman of a man without sorrows is almost a widow.
Hungarian Proverb
The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.
Hungarian Proverb
Wedded in september, widow or sorrow.
Corsican Proverb
Who weds a widow with three children takes four thieves into his house.
Estonian Proverb
A buxom widow must be married, buried, or cloistered.
Spanish Proverb
He that marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown into the dish.
Spanish Proverb
I won't tie up the mule in a horse's place, says the widow.
Berber Proverb
A girl receives, a widow takes her husband.
Chinese Proverb
A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
Portuguese Proverb
If you have ploughed with oxen, married a widow and never said a bad word - surely you go to heaven.
Finnish Proverb
Better the second husband of a widow than the first.
French Proverb
Never marry a widow unless her first husband was hanged.
Spanish Proverb
"When the rooster dies must the hen begin to sing", said the widow.
Finnish Proverb
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