Love has a tide. [ Helen Hunt ]
Frailty, thy name is woman! [ William Shakespeare ]
Man is frail, and prone to evil. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Great for good, or great for evil. [ Burns ]
Man with frailty is allied by birth. [ Bishop Lowth ]
Fine by defect, and delicately weak. [ Pope ]
Love's the noblest frailty of the mind. [ John Dryden ]
Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we;
For, such as we are made of, such we be. [ William Shakespeare ]
Weep no more, lady, weep no more.
Thy sorrow is in vain;
For violets plucked, the sweetest showers
Will never make grow again. [ Percy ]
This is the porcelain clay of human kind. [ Dryden ]
Other men's failings accuse us of frailty. [ Proverb ]
Unthought-of frailties cheat us in the wise. [ Pope ]
Sometimes we are devils to ourselves.
When we will tempt the frailty of our powers.
Presuming on their changeful potency. [ William Shakespeare ]
The failings of other men accuse us of frailty. [ Proverb ]
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet.
The basest weed outbraves its dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. [ William Shakespeare ]
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you. [ Ben Jonson ]
All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm. [ Halleck ]
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law. [ Pascal ]
The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it. [ Tuckerman ]
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. [ Balzac ]
For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. [ Cervantes ]
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force. [ Pascal ]
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all hands alike, and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. [ Richter ]