Frailty Quotes

• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Forgiveness, Failure, Errors

  Voltaire, André Maurois (1939). “The Living Thoughts of Voltaire”

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be.

  William Shakespeare

  Blame, Made, Alas

  "The Plays (poems) of Shakespeare". Ed. by H. Staunton, the illustr. by J. Gilbert engr. by the brothers Dalziel,

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

  Anne Stevenson

  Thinking, Poetry, Feelings

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• False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greatness, Political, Politics

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Artist, Humanity, Vitality

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Knowing, People

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• Frailty, thy name is woman!

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Memorable, Sassy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Cheat

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.181

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Frail, Thyself

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• Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Difficult, Grows, Humans

  "Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln's closed-door impeachment statement". www.cnn.com. February 12, 1999.

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• I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.

  Hugh Mackay

  Unique, Imperfection, Secret

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• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

  Voltaire

  Tolerance, Humanity, Pardon Me

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.497, Voltaire

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• The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

  Samuel Butler

  Records, World, Weakness

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.145, The Floating Press

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• The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, Bows, Bent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.337, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

  Seneca the Younger

  God, Greatness, Men

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• The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

  Daniel Nathans

  Physicians, Glimpse, Humans

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• We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Country, Wall, Years

  "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• Man with frailty is allied by birth.

  Robert Lowth

  Men, Birth

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• He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty, nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against such awareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him.

  Theodor Adorno

  Running, Believe, Risk

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet,
  Though to itself it only live and die'
  But if that flow'r with base infection meet,
  The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
  For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
  Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Weed, Sweet

  Sonnet 94

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• A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love Is, Imagination, Novelists

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• Great for good, or great for evil.

  Robert Burns

  Evil

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• Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

  Ben Jonson

  Mistress, Deny, Court

  'That Women are but Men's Shadows' (1616)

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