Pitiful Quotes

126 quotes by 117 authors

There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed. — Charles Osgood
He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For… — Thomas Jefferson
The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard… — Simon Jenkins
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest. — May Sarton
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources. — Indira Gandhi
The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in… — David Mamet
Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy,… — Frederick Lenz
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as… — Shawn Colvin
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are. — Tove Jansson
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful… — Warren Zevon
When an unconquered country is conquered, people are killed... . That the beloved of the Gods finds very pitiful and grievous. ... If anyone does… — Ashoka
Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks! — Adela Popescu
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great… — William Shakespeare
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was… — Mark Twain
Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart. — Wilson Mizner
Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each… — Joaquin Miller

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