1.
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
Virgil
3.
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
Jean de La Fontaine
4.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched
Virgil
5.
Money is life to us wretched mortals.
Hesiod
6.
The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
Barry Hannah
7.
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Lucius Accius
8.
Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.
Francoise Giroud
9.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
Juvenal
10.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Jean de la Bruyere
12.
What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
Martial
14.
It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.
Ovid
15.
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
Samuel Johnson
16.
If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.
Ovid
17.
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac
19.
Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?
Nancy Mitford
20.
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
Publilius Syrus
21.
I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.
Brian Aldiss
23.
O wretched man,
wretched not just because of what you are,
but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
25.
We men are wretched things.
Homer
26.
I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.
John Shelby Spong
27.
Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.
Euripides
28.
I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.
Sir John Davies
31.
I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.
John Shelby Spong
32.
If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
Charles Mackay
33.
Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
George Herbert