Quotes by Pity Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone. John Calvin pity rotten misery Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. Jim Rohn pity he-man men Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. John Godfrey Saxe degenerates pity human-nature Kind pity chokes my spleen. John Donne pity choke kind I learn to pity woes so like my own. John Dryden pity woe my-own Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it. Jonathan Franzen pity littles ideas But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps. Jonathan Lethem self-pity pity self Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's. Jonathan Tropper fart pity ive-learned Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life. Joseph Henry pathos pity infinite Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity. Joseph Hertz pity punishment divine All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did. Josephine Hart pity survival people Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. Joseph Addison incitement pity humanity Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing. Josh Billings pity cost Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. Josh Billings pity cost The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate. Josh Billings pity unfortunate I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. Josh Billings pity cures sorrow Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity. Josh Billings pity poverty kind In extreme danger fear feels no pity. Julius Caesar pity danger fear It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power. Kate Horsley pity noble men I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for. Katharine Fullerton Gerould pity vocabulary culture «345678910111213»