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Feeble and timid minds ... consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
— Edward Gibbon
Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.
— Charlie Chaplin
A mind to feeble to tell the time of day can still get the right blood to the right places, he thought.
— Anthony Marra
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
My motions were mindless, each one some feeble attempt to keep from thinking about what had happened,
— Sarah J. Maas
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
— William Wordsworth
May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.
— Herculine Barbin
Kitchen window. Scairt the chickens out o' the yard," he added, with a feeble grin. "Less about chickens, Young Ian," I said, looking
— Diana Gabaldon
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,
which it is the pride of utmost age to recover. — John Ruskin
which it is the pride of utmost age to recover. — John Ruskin
The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
— Blaise Pascal
Got a little - well - feeble as you might say. Of course, she was never dangerous; she was the sweetest old lady.
— Katherine Mansfield
Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children's hands.
— Charlotte Mason
Fucking family. Feeble and forlorn and floundering and foolish and frustrating and functional and sad, sad. Fucking family. Fiend or foe.
— Rick Moody
And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.
— Henry Kirke White
Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.
— Arthur C. Clarke
I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king
— Elizabeth I
Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
— Spencer W. Kimball
I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
— Elizabeth I
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Funny how, when one part of your life falls away, the other bits that are left start looking rather feeble.
— Mhairi McFarlane
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
— James Hudson Taylor
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
— Robert Smithson
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.
— Margaret Sanger
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
— J.C. Ryle
Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
— Tom Robbins
Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
— Michel De Montaigne
Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty.
— Harper Lee
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.
— Charles Spurgeon
Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.
— Isabel Paterson
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
— Walter Scott
One of the primary purposes of suffering is not to weaken the heart of the feeble, but to strengthen the spirit of the brave.
— Sebastian De Assis
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
— John Piper
If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.
— Thomas Jefferson
I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.
— Rivka Galchen
You treat me as if I was a feeble Human who couldn't survive without your help, but I am a MASTER bloody VAMPIRE. (Bones to Cat - Ch 16, pg. 174)
— Jeaniene Frost
I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead.
— Nearly Headless Nick J.K. Rowling
An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.
— Carl Jung
Bought marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.
— Julian Fellowes
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle.
— Dane Cook
Jacob crammed his eyes shut, listening to that feeble breathing, half expecting every breath to be the last. Lord, did You leave me for a purpose?
— Willowy Whisper
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
— Ida B. Wells
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Let us resolve by God's grace that, however feeble and poor our prayers may seem to us, we will pray on.
— J.C. Ryle
Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily
— Deborah McKinlay
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
the goal is to get old without getting feeble.
— Lou Schuler
Dust floats through the feeble beam of the flashlight: ten thousand particles, turning softly, twinkling.
— Anthony Doerr
Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?
— Juana Ines De La Cruz
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
— Alexander MacLaren
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
— Truman Capote
A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow
— Morris Sheppard
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
— Jean Racine
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
— Margaret Sanger
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
— Anais Nin
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
— Edmund Blake
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself.
— Raneem Kayyali
[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.
— Edward Gibbon
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
— Travis Barker
In the strangeness of the brightening day it seemed presumptuous that with this feeble, broken instrument of his mind he had ever tried to think.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction.
— Daniel Foxx
There is a feeble urgency behind all forced mannerisms of finery- haste and pomp cannot coincide.
— Nicholson Baker
— Nicholson Baker
Truth can look so flimsy and feeble sometimes. It's one of the things I hold against it.
— Sharon Cameron
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
— Samuel Johnson
An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.
— Dorothy Wordsworth
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.
— Morgan Freeman
Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.
— Honore De Balzac
Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Open, oh coloured world, without weight, without shore. You are second and better; this was first and feeble.
— C.S. Lewis
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
— John Joly
An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.
— Christopher Moore
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
— Mason Cooley
Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.
— Gorgias
Shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!
— Maria W. Stewart
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
— Sigmund Freud
Love is not weak, feeble or soft. Love is the positive force of life. Love is the cause of everything positive and good.
— Rhonda Byrne
Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.
— Euginia Herlihy
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
— John Lothrop Motley