...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
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others. — Francois Fenelon 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
It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides! — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything. — Simon Blackburn 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
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
“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
Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a… — Marion LeRoy Burton Copy Share Image
The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key… — William Law 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
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
You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,on the contrary, renders… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires… — Novalis Copy Share Image
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty… Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
