Amiable weakness. [ Henry Fielding ]
All haste implies weakness. [ George MacDonald ]
Every man has his weak side. [ J. T. Headley ]
Weakness is born vanquished. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
The weakest goes to the wall. [ William Shakespeare ]
Amiable weakness of human nature. [ Gibbon ]
All cruelty springs from weakness. [ Seneca ]
Will is not unfrequently weakness. [ George MacDonald ]
The best men have their weaknesses. [ R. Hall ]
Weakness to be wroth with weakness. [ Tennyson ]
Coquetry is the revenge of weakness.
Fine by defect, and delicately weak. [ Pope ]
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins. [ Lowell ]
A woman's love
Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
And by its weakness overcomes. [ James Russell Lowell ]
Nothing is a misery,
Unless our weakness apprehend it so:
We cannot be more faithful to ourselves,
In anything that's manly, than to make
Ill-fortune as contemptible to us
As it makes us to others. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness. [ Plato ]
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,
As they draw near to their eternal home. [ Edmund Waller ]
The beautiful seems right
By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness. [ E. B. Browning ]
The greatest people have their weak points. [ Louisa M. Alcott ]
To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering. [ Milton ]
Soft without weakness; without glaring, gay. [ Pope ]
Our worries always come from our weaknesses. [ Joubert ]
A weak body is the assassin of a strong mind. [ T. Tilton ]
Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days.
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone.
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. [ Cowper ]
From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains.
Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;
These first induce him the vile trash to try,
Then lend his name that other men may buy. [ Crabbe ]
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens! [ Joubert ]
Genius! thou gift of Heaven! thou Light divine!
Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!
Oft will the body's weakness check thy force,
Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course;
And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain
Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain;
Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come,
And breathe around her melancholy gloom:
To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine,
And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine. [ Crabbe ]
He teaches best.
Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
And knows their strength or weakness through his own. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Tomorrow is a satire on today, and shows its weakness. [ Young ]
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns. [ La Fontaine ]
A weak man is often so good that he is good for nothing. [ E. P. Day ]
The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness. [ Zimmerman ]
A general should make weakness appear strength to his enemy. [ Fabius ]
I am satisfied there is more weakness among men than malice. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. [ Kossuth ]
Nothing is so strong but may be endangered even by the weakest. [ Rufus ]
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails. [ Addison ]
He who has not the weakness of friendship, has not the strength. [ Joubert ]
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. [ Voltaire ]
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. [ Rochefoucauld ]
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign. [ Tacitus ]
Despair gives the finishing blow not only to misery, but to weakness. [ Vauvenargues ]
The weak man who whines of neglect gives the sign of his own weakness. [ Ada Isaacs Menken ]
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise! [ Lavater ]
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength. [ Colton ]
Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. [ Mme. du Deffand ]
God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength. [ Fenelon ]
Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule. [ Lady Morgan ]
If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step towards repairing our loss. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
The weakness of woman gives to some men a victory that their merit would never gain.
Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic. [ Noah Webster ]
Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man. [ William Penn ]
Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters. [ Tuckerman ]
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit. [ Lady Blessington ]
The most dangerous weakness of old people who have been amiable is to forget they are no longer so. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God? [ Pascal ]
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it. [ Pascal ]
As the heart is, so is love to the heart; it partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease. [ Longfellow ]
We must remember how apt man is to extremes - rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
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 ]
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thy estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity. [ Quarles ]
The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand strength. [ Charles Buxton ]
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two give us most trouble. [ Goethe ]
Husband and wife, - so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together! [ Ruffini ]
The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight; every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked; weaklings must lie. [ Richter ]
Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention. [ Swift ]
Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. [ Lowell ]
Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. [ Addison ]
Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them. [ Bovee ]
In public affairs, we may usually infer the weakness of the cause by the excessive price that ministers have freely paid to those whose eloquence, or whose sophistry, has enabled them to make that weakness triumph. [ Colton ]
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength; there is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage. [ Hazlitt ]
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. [ Washington Irving ]
When the passengers gallop by as if fear made them speedy, the cur follows them with an open mouth; let them walk by in confident neglect, and the dog will not stir at all; it is a weakness that every creature takes advantage of. [ J. Beaumont ]
Exaggeration is neither thoughtful, wise, nor safe; it is a proof of the weakness of the understanding, or the want of discernment of him that utters it, so that even when he speaks the truth, he soon finds it is received with large discount, or utter unbelief. [ W. B. Kinney ]
Never to speak by superlatives is a sign of a wise man; for that way of speaking wounds either truth or prudence. Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation; because they discover the weakness of understanding, and the bad discerning of him that speaks. [ J. Earle ]
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation. [ Coleridge ]
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order. A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness. [ Bacon ]
As the health and strength or weakness of our bodies is very much owing to their methods of treating us when we were young, so the soundness or folly of our minds is not less owing to those first tempers and ways of thinking which we eagerly received from the love, tenderness, authority, and constant conversation of our mothers. [ E. Law ]
If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the Wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]
It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. [ Addison ]
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 ]
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]