“She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty; How love makes young men thrall and old men dote; How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty: Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so”
William Shakespeare
“I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies--thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Willful waste makes woeful want”
Scottish Proverb
“Willful waste brings woeful want”
Thomas Fuller
“As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.”
Bible
“Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.”
“Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes”
