“ Who then to frail mortality shall trust but limns on water, or but writes in dust. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
“ We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
“ O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex. ”
- Jerry Rubin- Copy
“ People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals — that is, goals that do not inspire them. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
“ What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from". ”
- Marilyn Vos Savant- Copy
“ There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson- Copy
“ The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
“ Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against the truth. ”
- Thomas Huxley- Copy
“ A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. ”
- William James- Copy
“ A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
“ Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. If you protest, my friend, wait till you arrive there yourself! ”
- William James- Copy
“ Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. ”
- Richard Nixon- Copy
“ We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
“ Torture is a certain method for the acquittal of robust villains and for the condemnation of innocent but feeble men. ”
- Michel Foucault- Copy
“ Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining armor has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure. ”
- Robert A. Cook- Copy
“ The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
“ I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong. ”
- A. C. Benson- Copy
“ The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emanation from himself: He kindled it and he keeps it alive; and because it is his work, I trust many waters shall not quench it. ”
- John Newton- Copy
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