If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
Lucy Larcom
Pearls mean tears.
Doris Lessing
I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.
Joanna Lumley
I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.
Richard MacDonald
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
Thomas Otway
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
Ovid
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
Francois Rabelais
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
Ralph Ransom
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
Samuel Richardson