A disarmed peace is weak. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The argument of the weak. [ Sheridan ]
Every man has his weak side. [ J. T. Headley ]
The weak resort of cowardice. [ Colton ]
Bows too long bent grow weak. [ Proverb ]
That is a weak staff to trust to. [ Proverb ]
Law is the protector of the weak. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Weak things united, become strong. [ Proverb ]
The law is the friend of the weak. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong
Which ought not to be true. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]
Fine by defect, and delicately weak. [ Pope ]
Great souls love, weak souls desire. [ Mme. de Krudener ]
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. [ Lavater ]
Fortune, my friend, I've often thought
Is weak, if Art assist her not:
So equally all Arts are vain,
If Fortune help them not again. [ Sheridan ]
What 'twas weak to do,
'Tis weaker to lament, once being done. [ Shelley ]
Like angels' visits, short and bright;
Mortality's too weak to bear them long. [ J. Norris ]
Even weak men when united are powerful. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Press onward through each varying hour;
Let no weak fears thy course delay;
Immortal being! feel thy power,
Pursue thy bright and endless way. [ Andrews Norton ]
A woman's love
Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
And by its weakness overcomes. [ James Russell Lowell ]
Weak men and cowards are generally wily. [ Proverb ]
I am a heavy stone,
Rolled up a hill by a weak child: I move
A little up, and tumble back again. [ W. Rider ]
Death is but what the haughty brave,
The weak must bear, the wretch must crave. [ Byron ]
Curst be the gold and silver which persuade
Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade!
The lily peace outshines the silver store,
And life is dearer than the golden ore.
Yet money tempts us over the desert brown,
To every distant mart and wealthy town. [ Collins ]
Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The greatest people have their weak points. [ Louisa M. Alcott ]
Through age both weak in body and oblivious. [ Latimer ]
Old Age, a second child, by nature curst
With more and greater evils than the first.
Weak, sickly, full of pains: in every breath
Railing at life, and yet afraid of death. [ Churchill ]
On an average (from the strong to the weak). [ French ]
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply. [ Colton ]
To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering. [ Milton ]
Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]
The earth now supports many bad and weak men. [ Juv ]
Often try what weight you can support.
And what your shoulders are too weak to bear. [ Roscommon ]
A weak body is the assassin of a strong mind. [ T. Tilton ]
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. [ Victor Hugo ]
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together;
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee. [ William Shakespeare ]
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless. [ Johnson ]
In conversation dwell not too long on a weak side. [ Proverb ]
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens! [ Joubert ]
Little minds, like weak liquors, are soonest soured. [ Proverb ]
Oh, Love, how perfect is thy mystic art,
Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong! [ Byron ]
As one who in some frightful dream would shun
His pressing foe, labors in vain to run
And his own slowness in his sleep bemoans.
In short thick sighs, weak cries, and tender groans. [ Dryden ]
Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]
The strong must build stout cabins for the weak;
Must plan and stint; must sow and reap and store;
For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak. [ Eugene Lee-Hamilton ]
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. [ Massillon ]
Oh, help thou my weak wit, and sharpen my dull tongue! [ Spenser ]
Men err from selfishness, women because they are weak. [ Mme. de Stael ]
Necessity makes the weak strong and the coward vaJiant. [ J. Ray ]
A weak man is often so good that he is good for nothing. [ E. P. Day ]
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. [ Burke ]
The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness. [ Zimmerman ]
Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave. [ Lowell ]
Remember, when the judgment Is weak the prejudice is strong. [ Kane O'Hara ]
Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails. [ Addison ]
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [ Juvenal ]
Pity makes the world soft to the weak, and noble for the strong. [ Edwin Arnold ]
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. [ Beecher ]
Music! - O, how faint, how weak, language fades before thy spell! [ Moore ]
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. [ Auerbach ]
The weak man who whines of neglect gives the sign of his own weakness. [ Ada Isaacs Menken ]
Great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion (love). [ Bacon ]
Warn them that are unruly, support the weak, be patient toward all men. [ St. Paul ]
Expect injuries; for men are weak, and thou thyself doest such too often. [ Jean Paul ]
The laws of nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. [ Longfellow ]
Alas! how can we always resist? The devil tempts us, and the flesh is weak. [ Voltaire ]
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys: superior wisdom is superior bliss. [ Young ]
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. [ Montaigne ]
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that reason is weak. [ Montaigne ]
True gladness doth not always speak; joy bred and born but in the tongue is weak. [ Ben Jonson ]
It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [ Cicero ]
We men are but poor, weak souls, after all; women beat us out and out in fortitude. [ Charles Buxton ]
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. [ Samuel Lover ]
Weak souls are capable of only weak sentiments; strong souls of powerful sentiments. [ Balzac ]
And the weak soul, within itself unblessed, leans for all pleasure on another's breast. [ Goldsmith ]
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. [ Hare ]
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold. [ Lavater ]
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking. [ Cowper ]
When a thought is too weak to bear a simple expression, it is a sign that it deserves rejection. [ Vauvenargues ]
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. [ Chesterfield ]
A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones. [ Chesterfield ]
Absence lessens weak, and intensifies violent, passions, as wind extinguishes a taper and lights up a fire. [ La Roche ]
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. [ Johnson ]
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. [ Beecher ]
We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of the fair and ruddy countenance of David. [ John Ruskin ]
Nature often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in weak bosoms - oftenest. God bless her! - in female breasts. [ Dickens ]
Ridicule is a weak weapon when levelled at a strong mind; but common men are cowards, and dread an empty laugh. [ Tupper ]
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; dispatch, of a strong one. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution. [ Tillotson ]
Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. [ Voltaire ]
Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all upon. [ Sterne ]
Nothing is rarer than real goodness; those even who think they possess it are generally only good-natured and weak. [ La Roche ]
Absence diminishes weak passions and augments great ones; as the wind extinguishes tapers,but increases a conflagration. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Truthfulness is not so much a branch as a blossom of moral, manly strength. The weak, whether they will or not, must lie. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]
The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a steppingstone in the pathway of the strong. [ Carlyle ]
Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but the weak flavor of genius in a person essentially common is detestable. [ Holmes ]
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest. [ Pythagoras ]
To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned. [ Johnson ]
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy. [ Feltham ]
The two weak points of our age are want of principle and want of profile. Style depends largely on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high at present. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. [ Lavater ]
A weak mind sinks under prosperity as well as under adversity. A strong and deep one has two highest tides, when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. [ Hare ]
The history of woman is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto Nature, is weak. [ Bacon ]
Many are not able to suffer and endure prosperity; it is like the light of the sun to a weak eye, - glorious indeed in itself, but not proportioned to such an instrument. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Everywhere the strong have made the laws and oppressed the weak; and, if they have sometimes consulted the interests of society, they have always forgotten those of humanity. [ Turgot ]
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. [ Mrs. Stowe ]
It is difficult for the mind to span the career of nobody; the sphere of action opened to this wonderful person so enlarges every day that the limited faculties of anybody are too weak to compass it. [ Dickens ]
Make a point never so clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. [ Bishop Berkeley ]
There are three kinds of praise, - that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude. [ Colton ]
Love works miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or, break. [ L. E. Landon ]
Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of. [ Zimmermann ]
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons, which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons, which are strong. [ Colton ]
The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent. [ Kossuth ]
Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the era of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtime of their hopes! [ C. Bingham ]
Death is the tyrant of the imagination. His reign is in solitude and darkness, in tombs and prisons, over weak hearts and seething brains. He lives, without shape or sound, a phantasm, inaccessible to sight or touch - a ghastly and terrible apprehension. [ Barry Cornwall ]
Permanence, perseverance, persistence in spite of hindrances, discouragements, and "impossibilities:" it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak; the civilised burgher from the nomadic savage - the species Man from the genus Ape. [ Carlyle ]
It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be! [ Horace Bushnell ]
From the year 1789 to the year 1860 no nation has ever known a more unbounded prosperity, a fuller space of happiness. In the short space of seventy years, within the turn of a single life, the nation, poor, weak and despised, raised itself to the pinnacle of power and of glory. [ Robert C. Winthrop ]
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads. [ Colton ]
Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich and as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches, glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor. [ Quarles ]
After all there is a weariness that cannot be prevented. It will come on. The work brings it on. The cross brings it on. Sometimes the very walk with God brings it on, for the flesh is weak; and at such moments we hear softer and sweeter than it ever floated in the wondrous air of Mendelssohn, O rest in the Lord,
for it has the sound of an immortal requiem: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors.
[ James Hamilton ]
Weakness can never be beautiful, either morally or physically: and though the feminine type may possess greater softness and more feeling, it must be active, firm, and healthy, or it cannot be beautiful; the weak mind, distracted by alternations of feeling, and constant craving for help and sympathy from others, cannot at the same time possess that tenderness and unselfish devotion which is the loveliest trait of the female character. [ M. Martell ]