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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Andre Gide

Beauty

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.

Joe Frazier

Brother

Pity

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

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.

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Cary Elwes

Pity

World

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Theodore Dreiser

Pity

Universe

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

Chauncey Depew

Fathers

Pity

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

Barry Cornwall

Grief

Pity