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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right.
— William E. Gladstone
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
— Edmund Waller
I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now.
— Abigail Thomas
Amo, amas, I love a lass, As cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace Is her nominative case, And she's o' the feminine gender.
— Diana Gabaldon
Life hangs from so slender a thread. Life is but a sigh ...
— Marjane Satrapi
The strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires ...
— John Geddes
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
— William Manchester
Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Happiness leaves such slender records; it is the dark days that are so voluminously documented.
— Truman Capote
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
— George Washington
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
— John Henry Newman
Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.
— Stella Gibbons
The child was slender as a fleeting hope.
— William Peter Blatty
The child was slender as fleeting hope.
— William Peter Blatty
The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.
— Gaspard Ulliel
around her slender waist.
— Chip Hughes
All the memories in the world, good or bad, are not worth one slender hope for the future; and
— Mark Twain
Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.
— Charlotte Bronte
The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.
— Francis Quarles
Ravishment of this slender body in all ways possible before draining it of the life substance? Aren't you a pleasure hoarder, my dear?
— Ciaran O. Dwynvil
Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.
— Robin Sloan
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
— Alexandre Dumas
One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere.
— Marianne Moore
And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.
— Jules Laforgue
And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it
— L.J.Smith
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.
— Martin Luther
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
— Pablo Casals
The truth is always of use, madonna," he answered, eyes fixed on the slender stream. "It has the value of rarity, you know.
— Diana Gabaldon
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
— Cameron Russell
Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.
— Laurence Sterne
She was average height, more slender than curvy. And he realized with horror that he was attracted to her. A lot.
— Miranda Liasson
Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.
— James Montgomery
On the equator, where centrifugal forces are greatest, a 150-pound person will be a slender 149 pounds 14 ounces.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
He felt like a helium balloon straining skyward on a slender string.
— Jonathan Franzen
Her slender shoulders slumped making Marcus want to go to her and vow he'd never hurt her the way he could as a Drakkon.
— Paula Quinn
How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.
— Charles Brockden Brown
Her slender hand on the small of his back, night after night - this had saved his life.
— Jason Heller
This was my slender bridge to the future, and I stepped onto it as carefully as I could.
— Alexander Chee
White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soulYou live again in time, slender and silent. — Pablo Neruda
But you didn't die.""Clever lad, to deduce that from such slender evidence after living with me for just three years. — Scott Lynch
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
— William Hazlitt
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
— Thomas Jefferson
Cecilia did not know why her three slender daughters loved watching overweight people sweat and cry and starve.
— Liane Moriarty
Its single mast reached high towards the stars and its slender form creaked with every lapping wave.
— Jack Croxall
Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.
— Elizabeth Wein
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.
— Samuel Johnson
The mystery is this: there is one right thing and only one right thing to do at every moment. We can either follow or resist the slender threads.
— Robert A. Johnson
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.
— Andrew Solomon
