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• I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Social, Pity, Worth, Admire, Man

• The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

  Richard Steele

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object, Within, Pity, Until

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

  Theodore Dreiser

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pity, Underestimate, Fiercely, Rage, Universe

• My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

  Wilfred Owen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pity, War, Poetry

• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pity, Thought

• The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

  Anton Chekhov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pity, Good

• I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don’t want pity or random advice.

  Teri Garr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pity, Athlete, Ms, Random, Celebrity

• It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one’s youth.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Age, Experience, Youth

  Tags in Pity

• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  F. H. Bradley

  Tags in Wives, Pity

• Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

  Pierre Corneille

  Topics in Fate

  Tags in Pity, Threaten

• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  Vicki Baum

  Tags in Pity, Deadliest

• Don’t pity me now, don’t pity me never; I’m going to do nothing for ever and ever.

  James Agate

  Tags in Pity

• 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.

  Abraham Cahan

  Tags in Legs, Pity

• Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Tags in Pity

• Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

  Mason Cooley

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Pity

• When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Tags in Pity

• Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

  John William Gardner

  Tags in Pity

• Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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