Quotes About Feeble

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

Oh, Heavens' ejaculated the engineer in a feeble voice.

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Envy and malice are indefatigable. Where they have not invention enough to frame new slanders, or the slanders newly framed are found totally inadequate to their purpose, they will call in the feeble aid of old calumnies

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

And now, though feeble and short-lived, mankind has flaming fire and therefrom learns many crafts.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

A republican spirit was insensibly revived in the senate, as their authority, and even their supplies, became necessary for the support of his feeble government.

A feeble Executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever it may be in theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,But to support him after.

God is a feeble, emasculated non-God on a cross who can't even save himself. If he can't save himself, how can he save you? Give us Nietzsche's Superman any day. God is dead. Long live the Overman. The task is to get stronger and stronger, not weaker and weaker.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Unhappiness and misfortune attend those who are voluntarily feeble. "Their defect deprived them of the joy derived from happy efforts. They will be the prey of duplicity and untruth. "They are the vanquished in life, and scarcely deserve the pity of the conqueror; for their defeat lacks grandeur, since it has never been aurioled by the majestic strength of conflict.

I had given Holmes this wedding as a gift-only to have him turn around and hand it back to me tenfold. And now his two oldest friends in all the world had conspired against our plans, casually rendering our feeble attempts at a gift into solid gold.

A tall, thin, gaunt, cadaverous man, who moved like he might collapse at any moment, like a broken stepladder.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.