The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by. — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho. — Samuel L. Jackson 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
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength. — Frank Bartleman 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
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
“What about those yogis who can lie down on a bed of nails, then arise, streaming blood, then stop the flow of… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we… — Frank Warren Copy Share Image
The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
“The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them… — Ndabaningi Sithole 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
“In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of… — Lloyd Alexander 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
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
Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Denis Diderot 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
“...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. — Jef Raskin Copy Share Image
