Alas Quote by John Godfrey Saxe Download Open image “Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.” — John Godfrey Saxe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alas Contempt Degenerates Hard Human nature Humans Ifs Pity Poor
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong. — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage! — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get. — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged. — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
“Give me kisses! Nay, 'tis true I am just as rich as you; And for every kiss I owe, I can pay you back,… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs;… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
All things of beauty are not theirs alone who hold the fee; but unto him no less who can enjoy, than unto them who… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
