Weeping

Famous quotes containing the word weeping:

“There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)

“The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.”
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)

“And now where e’re he strayes
Among the Galilaean mountains,
Or more unwelcome wayes,
Hee’s follow’d by two faithfull fountaines,
Two walking Baths, two weeping motions;
Portable and compendious Oceans.”
—Richard Crashaw (1613?–1649)