Top 404 Feeble Quotes & Sayings

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

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

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.

It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be segregated during the reproductive periodwe prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded.

If God made no response except to perfect faith, who could hope for help? But God has regard for beginnings, and His eye perceives greatness in the germ. The hand of the woman in the crowd trembled as it was stretched toward Jesus, and the faith back of it was superstitiously reverent, trusting in the virtue of the robe, rather than in the One who wore it; yet the genuineness of that faith; feeble though it was, triumphed in God's loving sight. Real trust is real power, though the heart and hand be feeble.

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

I'm just a feeble old man but I represent the spirit of speaking out.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

The European Union is becoming more economically feeble every year.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.