“...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
It is an all-too-human frailty to suppose that a favorable wind will blow forever — Rick Bode Copy Share Image
The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. — Jef Raskin Copy Share Image
All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and… — Andras Angyal Copy Share Image
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who… — John Locke Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned is to be much more open about my frailties and about our failures, because when you… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“The nightmare they banished – a thing of darkness and misery, born of their fears, bloated on their hatreds. They did not… — Grant Smuts Copy Share Image
“And there we recognize that our frailty is not meant to cause us anxiety and sorrow. Rather, God means it to be… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life,… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little… — Jean-Christophe Valtat Copy Share Image
“...[A]ll the elements which belong to the notion of happiness are altogether empirical, that is, they must be borrowed from experience, and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's… — William James Copy Share Image
“The breath of wind that moved them was still chilly on this day in May; the flowers gently resisted, curling up with… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only… — Jack London Copy Share Image
For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“They are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot.” — Jennifer Hudock Copy Share Image
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image