Feeble Quotes

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

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

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

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.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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

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

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 executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

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.