Quotes of Frail - somelinesforyou

“ And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ The strength even of weak men when united avails much. ”

- Homer

“ Fine by defect, and delicately weak. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. ”

- Paula Poundstone

“ I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone. ”

- Princess Anne of England

“ A weak Invention of the Enemy. ”

- Colley Cibber

“ Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger. - As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner: Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. ”

- Frances Rodman

“ Lastly came Winter cloathed all in frize,Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill;Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freese,And the dull drops, that from his purpled billAs from a limebeck did adown distill:In his right hand a tipped staffe he held,With which his feeble steps he stayed still;For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld;That scarce his loosed limbes he hable was to weld. ”

- Edmund Spenser

“ The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. ”

- Sallust

“ I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ How frail the human heart must be — a mirrored pool of thought. ”

- Sylvia Plath

“ Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Lesbians make themselves into a more frail political community by insisting on the radical irreducibility of their desire. I don't think any of us have irreducibly distinct desires. ”

- Judith Butler

“ My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time. ”

- Michael Clarke Duncan

“ Life is a frail moth flyingCaught in the web of the years that pass. ”

- Sara Teasdale

“ The greatest of all visions is to see Christ, indeed, to see God, in the frail and glorious human family of the world. ”

- Macrina Wiederkehr

“ Your life is entwined with the God who gave you birth. Frail dust, remember, you are splendor. ”

- Macrina Wiederkehr

“ Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man. ”

- Elbert Hubbard
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