When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes.
The coward is an object to be pitied.
Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.
No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
Better to be disliked than pitied.
Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.
It was our duty to expand. Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied. What we want to do, we can do and will do, together. A glorious future!
History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.
Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.
