Woe

Famous quotes containing the word woe:

    ‘All that is mortal of great Plato there
    Expiates the joy and woe his master knew not;
    The star that ruled his doom was far too fair.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    If all the world could have seen ‘t, the woe had been universal.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to the one by whom the stumbling block comes!
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 18:7.

    Other translations use “temptations.”