“woe of unnumbered generations”

“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.”

“It was an old song, old as the breed itself - one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad. It was invested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred. When he moaned and sobbed, it was with the pain of living that was of old the pain of his wild fathers, and the fear any mystery of the cold and dark that was to them fear and mystery. And that he should be stirred by it marked the completeness with which he harked back through the ages of fire and roof to the raw beginnings of life in the howling ages.”

“Straight Man: "But my daughter belongs to a talk show generation that seems to be losing the ability to discriminate between public and private woes.”

“Tears unnumbered ye shall shed....”

“and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.”