Frailty Quotes - Page 3

• There's lots of flaws and frailties and cracks in the armor, and nobody wants to put themselves out there as some kind of Joan of Arc because none of us can live up to that, but I'm grateful to be a role model and be respected because I have a whole slew of people, men and women, that I feel the same way about.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Grateful, Men, People

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• AIDS has come upon us with cruel abandon. It has forced us to confront and deal with the frailty of our being and the reality of death. It has forced us into a realization that we must cherish every moment of the glorious experience of this thing we call life. We are learning to value our own lives of our loved ones as if any moment may be the last.

  Peter McWilliams

  Reality, Cherish Every Moment, Realization

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• The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.

  Frank Bartleman

  Humility, Weakness, Repentance

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• Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Pain, Vanity, Suffering

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• [On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.

  Ida Tarbell

  Christian, Business, Fall

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• We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

  George Etherege

  Helping, Affection, Pleasure

  1676 The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 2, sc.2.

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• The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

  Steve Ross

  Heart, Cities, Church

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• The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Opportunity, History, Giving

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith”, p.363

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• If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

  John Tillotson

  Soul, Suffering, States

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• Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Vices, Goes On

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.241

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• Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Benefits, Slavery

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• And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

  John Locke

  Hands, Law, Temptation

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.313

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• There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not at the level of the human frailties of particular monarchs or presidents. No one seriously contends that the American presidency should be abolished because Bill Clinton is a self-confessed adulterer. So why should the abolition of the British monarchy be contemplated because the same is true of Prince Charles?

  David Cannadine

  Self, Important, President

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA

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• Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

  Herbert Hoover

  Humility, Men, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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• No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.

  Thomas Gray

  Hope, Father, Merit

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.125-8,'The Epitaph'.

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• God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Moving

  William Law (1734). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].”, p.8

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• I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Eye, People, Needs

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• Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.

  Charles Wagner

  Memories, Single Mom, Men

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• But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

  William Hurt

  Thinking, Fragility, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy as a whole fall into ill-repute because of those among its devotees who have stumbled into wells, or who aimlessly pass their lives in whetting their faculties and then neglecting to use them.

  John Grier Hibben

  Philosophy, Fall, Use

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• When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest them with a power to do to others what they do to us; a vain hope, as the lovers of others are rarely of much interest to us. But we listen in patience, as friends must, and as Isabel now did, refraining from comment, other than to encourage the release of the story and the attendant confession of human frailty and hope.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Emotional, Stories, Want

  "Friends, Lovers, Chocolate". Book by Alexander McCall Smith, 2005.

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• Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

  Thomas Nashe

  Idiot, Fame, Immortal

  1592 Strange News of the Intercepting Certain Letters.

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• Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

  Donald Fehr

  People, Perfection, Faults

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• Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

  William Congreve

  Ambition, Fire, Self

  1700 The Way of the World, act 3, sc.12.

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• In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to heal, and that the divine activity should issue forth even from the hem of His garment. For God is not perceptible by the senses, to be enclosed within a body. The assumption of a body did not limit the nature of His power; but for our redemption His power took upon it the frailty of our body.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Christian, Dwelling, Issues

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