Top 234 Frail Quotes & Sayings

It's extraordinary how a physical disability makes people think that somebody is frail.

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

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

My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

I'm a little frail girl, but I like being tied up, blindfolded and gagged so you can't move.

Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

I was this tiny, frail little girl, I needed to build up muscle, and I fell in love with dancing from the first lesson.

Beauty is a frail good.

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'

More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is O.K. to be frail and wounded because that is the way the almighty transcendent God made people.

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.

What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind...

How frail you are. I don’t want to hurt you by accident. (Nykyrian) I’m not as frail as I appear. I know from lots of experience that I bounce really well. (Kiara) I would kill anyone who hurt you. (Nykyrian)

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.

Not even a mighty warrior can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from each other your enemy can brake you like frail arrows, one at a time.

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

I am frail like everyone else, and I take that into account when I talk about things.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.