Weeping

Famous quotes containing the word weeping:

“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)

“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.)