Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
God pity the poor novelist.
Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.
But really it’s condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because they’re old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese. Banged up people don’t want your pity. They just want to be treated like everyone else. Mockery, when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It’s the closest we’ll ever come to true equality.
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.
Pity those who don't feel anything at all
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!
I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
America overflows with specious 'victims' demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone as defined in the rulebook. What a concept.
There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.
A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.
Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse