Frailty Quotes

111 quotes by 98 authors

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. — Miguel de Cervantes
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to… — Jean de la Bruyere
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. — Seneca the Younger
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true… — Bernard de Mandeville
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection. — Albert Pike
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. — Glen Duncan
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true… — David Hume
Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst… — Andras Angyal
Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in… — Joseph Addison
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live… — Brooks Atkinson
Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us… — John Bunyan
You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty. — Bing Crosby
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. — Tom Hiddleston
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to… — Robert Adams
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind. — John Dryden
The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities. — Yuri Kochiyama
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span… — Elizabeth Aston

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