Quotes of Fragile - somelinesforyou

“ Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Who then to frail mortality shall trust but limns on water, or but writes in dust. ”

- Francis Bacon

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together. ”

- Unknown

“ To me, being creative is a very fragile thing, and somehow I've always felt the need to be very protective of that. ”

- Holly Hunter

“ Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. ”

- Jane Austen

“ Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. - Unknown. ”

- Unknown

“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”

- Randolph Silliman Bourne

“ That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones. ”

- John Ruskin

“ The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. ”

- Jack London

“ Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ”

- Chapman Cohen

“ Confidence is a very fragile thing. ”

- Joe Montana

“ Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. ”

- Alice Mackenzie Swaim

“ 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

“ Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. ”

- Germaine Greer

“ Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. ”

- Ovid

“ 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

“ Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak. ”

- John Milton

“ 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

“ When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. ”

- Antonin Artaud

“ Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ Strong words are required for weak principles. ”

- Doug Horton

“ The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton
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