WEAKNESS

Related Subjects: Coward, Decay, Failure, Faults

1. He knows not how to wink at human frailty,
   Or pardon weakness that he never felt.—ADDISON, Cato
   

2. The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.—BACON, Essays
   

3. All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.—Bible, Ezekiel 7:17
   

4. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.—Bible, Matthew 26:41
   

5. Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.—JOSH BILLINGS, Affurisms
   

6. The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.—BURKE
   

7. People in general will much better bear being told of their vices and crimes than of their failings and weaknesses.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
   

8. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.—G. K. CHESTERTON, Heretics
   

9. Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.—DICKENS, Great Expectations
   

10. People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.—ANATOLE FRANCE, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
    

11. Amiable weaknesses of human nature.—GIBBON, Decline & Fall
    

12. And the weak soul, within itself unblest,
    Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.—GOLDSMITH, The Traveller
    

13. We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power.—PATRICK HENRY
    

14. There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.—LOWELL, Among My Books
    

15. Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.—MAETERLINCK, Joyzelle
    

16. To be weak is miserable,
    Doing or suffering.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

17. Fine by defect, and delicately weak.—POPE, Moral Essays
    

18. Weak men had need be witty.—Proverb
    

19. Every man has his weak side.—Proverb
    

20. The weakest goes to the wall.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

21. What 'twas weak to do
    'Tis weaker to lament, once being done.—SHELLEY, The Cenci
    

22. We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.—HERBERT SPENCER, First Principles
    

23. You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?—STEVENSON, The Amateur Emigrant
    

24. Weakness to be wroth with weakness ! woman's pleasure, woman's pain—
    Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain.—TENNYSON, Locksley Hall
    

25. I was weak as a rained-on bee.—RIDGELY TORRENCE, The Tramp Sings