“O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.”
William Shakespeare
“True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road”
Voltaire
“He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.”
“Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth”
Martin Luther
“How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.”
Robert Burns
“A wretched soul bruised with adversity,We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;But were we burdened with like weight of pain,As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.”
