| "My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "A snake deserves no pity." »Yiddish Proverb |
| "pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." »Don Marquis |
| "What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country" »Joseph Addison |
| "It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly." »William Shakespeare |
| "Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat." »Mark Twain |
| "What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it." »Margot Asquith |
| "Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world." »Helen Keller |
| "Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children." »Judith Pugh |
| "For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little." »Rachel Carson |
| "Where Mercy, Love, and pity dwell There God is dwelling too." »William Blake |
| "How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country" »Joseph Addison |
| "Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self." »Millicent Fenwick |
| "Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind." »Stephen Vincent Benet |
| "Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality." »John W. Gardner |
| "Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best." »Richard Willard Armour |
| "'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." »Bertrand Russell |
| "What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around." »Georges Bernanos |
| "On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved." »Mark Twain |
| "You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette |
| "So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side." »Victor Hugo |
| "For Mercy has a human heart, pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress." »William Blake |
| "What a pity that so many people rather believe their doubts And doubt their beliefs... Why don't we just decide to have no doubts, And believe your beliefs Fear and worry is just the mis-use of the creative powers We originally got to dream." »Unknown |
| "Suffering . We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues." »Anatole France |
| "A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
[