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| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. |
| Sorrow |
| A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy. Chinese. | 1 |
| A sorrowing bairn was never fat. | 2 |
| All sorrows are bearable if there is bread. Don Quixote. | 3 |
| Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow. Danish. | 4 |
| Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of real good. Mrs. Stowe. | 5 |
| Better two losses than one sorrow. | 6 |
| Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Moore. | 7 |
| Fat sorrow is better than lean sorrow. | 8 |
| For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done. Shakespeare. | 9 |
| Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak, Whispers the o’erfraught heart and bids it break. Shakespeare. | 10 |
| Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat. Ben Jonson. | 11 |
| He gains enough who loses sorrow. French. | 12 |
| He who loves sorrow will always find something to mourn over. Danish. | 13 |
| He who swims in sin will sink in sorrow. | 14 |
| Immoderate sorrow causes great mischief. Sri Lankan. | 15 |
| It has pleased the gods that sorrow should act as companion to sorrow. | 16 |
| It is weel wairt they hae sorrow that buy it wi’ their siller. | 17 |
| Light sorrows speak, great ones are dumb. Spectator. | 18 |
| Make not two sorrows of one. Bacon. | 19 |
| One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor. Shakespeare. | 20 |
| On the sands of life sorrow treads heavily, And leaves a print time cannot wash away. Neele. | 21 |
| Rejoice not in another’s sorrow. Turkish. | 22 |
| Serve a great man and you will know what sorrow is. Spanish. | 23 |
| Shame on those hearts of stone that cannot melt, In soft adoption of another’s sorrow. A. Hill. | 24 |
| Sin and sorrow are inseparable. | 25 |
| Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for. | 26 |
| Sorrow brings on premature old age. Latin. | 27 |
| Sorrow comes unsent for. Latin. | 28 |
| Sorrow concealed doth burn the heart to cinders. Shakespeare. | 29 |
| Sorrow dwells on the confines of pleasure. | 30 |
| Sorrow ends not when it seemeth done. | 31 |
| Sorrow felt by a man conscious of his ignorance is like the joy of heaven. Sri Lankan. | 32 |
| Sorrow is always dry. | 33 |
| Sorrow is good for nothing but sin. | 34 |
| Sorrow is knowledge. Byron. | 35 |
| Sorrow seldom comes alone. Danish. | 36 |
| Sorrow will pay no debt. | 37 |
| Sorrows grow less every time they are told, Just like the age of a woman. Punch. | 38 |
| Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. Pollok. | 39 |
| That which comes with sin goes with sorrow. Danish. | 40 |
| The best cure for sorrow is to pity somebody. | 41 |
| The bridge between joy and sorrow is not long. German. | 42 |
| The holidays of joy are the vigils of sorrow. | 43 |
| The sorrow men have for others hangs upon a hair. | 44 |
| The path of sorrow, and that path alone Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown. Cowper. | 45 |
| This is the truth the poet sings, That sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Tennyson. | 46 |
| ’Tis better to be lowly born and range with humble lovers in content, than wear a golden sorrow. Shakespeare. | 47 |
| ’Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. Tennyson. | 48 |
| ’Tis not in the power of man to bear The silent eloquence of female sorrow. Massinger. | 49 |
| Two in distress make sorrow less. | 50 |
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| When sorrow is asleep wake it not. | 51 |
| When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in batallions. Shakespeare. | 52 |
| Whither goest thou, sorrow?—whither I am wont. Spanish. | 53 |
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