Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“He was certain she had an infirmity, some rare, peculiar mental disorder from birth, that made her do the opposite of what… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You've been provided with a perfect body to house your soul for a few brief moments in eternity. So regardless of its… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image