Quotes with feeble

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

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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jeremy Collier Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill living.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Samuel Johnson Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Marquis de Sade Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (2011) 97
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Christopher Hampton I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Alice James It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville 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
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Edmund Burke Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Ralph Nader Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
    Ralph Nader
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Aldous Huxley Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Queen Victoria The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ''Woman's Rights'' with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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