O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Muhammad was a jackass. People who believe in him are stupid. Let us call a spade as spade. These people must be… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and… — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners. — Francoise Giroud Copy Share Image
Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt. — Plato Copy Share Image
The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down,… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
