"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps." - William BlakeTweet
"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion." - Frances E. WillardTweet
"Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education." - Angelina GrimkeTweet
"Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin." - Harold BloomTweet
"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force." - Lech WalesaTweet
"If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point." - Dirk BenedictTweet
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words." - Marcus Tullius CiceroTweet
"If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world." - Oscar WildeTweet
"You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men." - Max BeerbohmTweet
"Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink." - W. H. DaviesTweet