A feeble body weakens the mind. [ Rousseau ]
A feeble dart thrown without effect. [ Virgil ]
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
But to support him after. [ Shakespeare ]
The beautiful seems right
By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness. [ E. B. Browning ]
The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame.
Die fast away; only themselves die faster.
The far-famed sculptor, and the laurelled bard,
Those bold insurancers of deathless fame,
Supply their little feeble aids in vain. [ Blair ]
Feeble souls always set to work at the wrong time. [ Cardinal de Reiz ]
Mightier far
Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
Of magic potent over sun and star,
Is love, though oft to agony distrest,
And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. [ Wordsworth ]
Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. [ William Shakespeare ]
The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep. [ Mme. Roland ]
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. [ Cicero ]
Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour. [ Johnson ]
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world. [ T. W. Higginson ]
I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint, and the cowardly, feeble resolve. [ Burns ]
It is modesty that places in the feeble hand of beauty the sceptre that commands power. [ Helvetius ]
Nature without discipline is of small force, and discipline without nature more feeble. [ John Lily ]
No man who is wretched in his own heart and feeble in his own work can rightly help others. [ John Ruskin ]
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it. [ Mme. Roland ]
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. Time is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. [ Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) ]
Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living. [ Jeremy Collier ]
The study of books is a languishing and feeble motion that hearts not, whereas conversation teaches and exercises at once. [ Montaigne ]
What chiefly distinguishes great artists from feeble artists is first their sensibility and tenderness; secondly, their imagination; and thirdly, their industry. [ John Ruskin ]
Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character I would wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and the cowardly feeble resolve. [ Burns ]
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. They are apt to become feeble in the utterance; the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. [ George Eliot ]
Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The one thing that marks the true artist is a clear perception and a firm, bold hand, in distinction from that imperfect mental vision and uncertain touch which give us the feeble pictures and the lumpy statues of the mere artisans on canvas or in stone. [ O. W. Holmes ]
What a chimera is man! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradictions! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere bundle of uncertainties! the glory and the shame of the universe! [ Pascal ]
As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]