Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble…

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have…

— Edward Gibbon

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

— Edward Gibbon

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

— Marquis de Sade

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Religion adheres to the wise, while the feeble are bound to it.”

— VD

A feeble body weakens the mind.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of feeble minds”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.”

— Daniel Keyes

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

— Albert Einstein

The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself…

— Octavia Butler

“Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty.”

— Harper Lee

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the…

— John Chrysostom

“May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.”

— Herculine Barbin

“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of…

— Honoré de Balzac

“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in…

— Erik Pevernagie