Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

How sick one gets of being 'good ' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited that blights their life.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past but an infinite number of brackets extending either way each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Indeed wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

I had dreams but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it the more we contemplate him.