Frailty Quote by Thomas Shadwell Download Open image “And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.” — Thomas Shadwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Frailty Mind Noblest Psychology Wit
Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring. — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. — Thomas Shadwell 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 no man. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Whoever can weep over himself for one hour is greater than the one who is able to teach the whole world; whoever recognizes the… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
“The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room "in time" during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her husband, commander of a space shuttle crew, encouraged her by identifying with her limitation. Even revered astronauts, he revealed, have bodily limits and have to… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share
Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find… — Frank Warren 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
The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death,… — William James Copy Share
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