Infirmity Quotes

104 Infirmity quotes by 91 unique authors

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is… — Charles Dickens
For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I… — Albert Camus
There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were… — Elizabeth Goudge
I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling… — Charles Spurgeon
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all… — Izaak Walton
If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope. — George Steiner
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. — John Lancaster Spalding
The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but… — Mark Twain
Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed. — Jean de la Bruyere
Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and… — Michel de Montaigne
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over… — Mark Twain
This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full. — Clarence Day
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted. — Daniel D. Palmer
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal. — Ignatius Loyola
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our… — William Wordsworth
Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life! That cage of… — T. B. Joshua
Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and… — Theophan the Recluse
Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year, though no one… — Jon Stewart
The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith.… — Norman Vincent Peale
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a… — Andrew Solomon
My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or… — Thomas Hobbes

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