Feeble Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.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

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

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.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

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.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

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

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

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

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