The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
I can sense and feel this wretched compassion that I don't want. But it's there. It's a very painful kind of compassion.… — Caroline Myss 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
In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is the wretched way people have of setting up a claim to happiness that ruins everything in this world. A man… — Johann Heinrich Merck Copy Share Image
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't… — James Russell Lowell 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
In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any… — Terry Pratchett 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
Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion. — Jim Morrison 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
