An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour! — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. — Plautus Copy Share Image
You gotta understand, there are two different kinds of Asians - the kind who are good at school, obey their parents, go… — Bobby Lee Copy Share Image
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of the Spirit of God, whereby a poor soul is enabled through the mighty operation… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
