Quotes of Feebleness - somelinesforyou

“ Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer. ”

- Clementine Paddleford

“ Never test another man by your own weakness. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. ”

- Marie de Vichy Chamrond

“ Amiable weakness. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it… ”

- Marie Curie

“ If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? ”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

“ There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness and rapacity. ”

- Charles Evans Hughes

“ My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order. ”

- Dolly Parton

“ We are not so easily gilded by our most prominent weaknesses, as by those of which we are least aware. ”

- Arthur Helps

“ The helpless can't help the helpless. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ And he has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. ”

- Bible

“ Wickedness is weakness. ”

- John Milton

“ All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others. ”

- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

“ And love's the noblest frailty of the mind. ”

- John Dryden

“ I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit. ”

- Whitey Ford

“ We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. ”

- Aung San Suu Kyi

“ The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. ”

- Edmund Waller

“ We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ Security puts a premium on feebleness. ”

- H. G. Wells

“ Once we know our weaknesses, they cease to do us any harm. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. ”

- Francois Mauriac

“ Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. ”

- Salman Rushdie

“ Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. ”

- Norman Cousins

“ Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ”

- Thomas a Kempis
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