Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead

It is a pity that we cannot escape from life when we are young.

Even Noah got no salary for the first six months partly on account of the weather and partly because he was learning navigation.

[On his deathbed:] Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved