Pity Quotes

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

The cure for grief is motion.

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

The Justice of today is born of yesterday's pity.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.