Quotes of: Feeble Keyword

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

The Essays: A Selection

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

P. T. Barnum

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Robert Smithson

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Christopher Hampton

If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.

Bryant McGill

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Come to the beach with me And watch the pelicans die, Hear their feeble screams Calling to an empty sky Where once they played And scouted for food, Not scavenging like the gulls But plummeting unafraid Into friendly waters. Come to the beach with me...

There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan

Flowers for Algernon

marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.

Gosford Park: The Shooting Script

Vanity remains a feeble weapon The delusional wearer of it considers herself strong

Those Imperfect Strokes

An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.

Fool

I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead.

Nearly Headless Nick J.K. Rowling

I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king

Queen Elizabeth I

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

Travis Barker

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

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

Joseph Story

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Bertrand Russell

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

Anne Sullivan

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

William Cowper