Feeble Quotes

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

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.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

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

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

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

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

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