Pitiable Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his… — Harry Vardon
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails… — Alfred Nobel
Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their… — Samuel Hopkins Adams
There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a… — L. Neil Smith
Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands… — Heinrich von Treitschke
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to… — Benjamin Franklin
Why did you act in this way, you pitiable ones? Make a bow of repentance, recognize your fault, be sorry for your nakedness. Neither one… — Dorotheus of Gaza
Opportunities are everywhere. Needed are eyes to see the pitiable plight and ears to hear the silent pleadings of a broken heart. — Thomas S. Monson
Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to… — Carl Jung
My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is… — Kailash Satyarthi
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in… — Edgar Allan Poe
The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of… — Louis Kronenberger
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell. — Publilius Syrus
I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile. — Christina Hoff Sommers
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive… — Evelyn Underhill
...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that… — Toni Morrison

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