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The weakest goeth to the wall.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: title of a play printed in 1600 and 1618
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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: On Seditions, quoted as a Spanish proverb
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But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Speech on the Conciliation of America
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Amiable weakness.
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: Tom Jones (bk. X, ch. VIII)
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Amiable weakness of human nature.
Author: Edward Gibbon
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted
brights.
[Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach
In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Iphigenia auf Tauris (I, 3, 98)
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd,
Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller
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We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.
[Fr., On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagere.]
Author: Jean Francois de la Harpe
Source: Melanie (I, 1)
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Soft-heartedness, in times like these,
Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
Author: Amy Lowell
Source: The Biglow Papers (second series, no. 7)
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If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?
All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore,
With God or man will gain thee no remission.
Author: John Milton
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 831)
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Heaven forming each on other to depend,
A master, or a servant, or a friend,
Bids each on other for assistance call,
Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 249)
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Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 43)
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Even the weakest is thrust to the wall.
Author: John Scogin
Source: Jests
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Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's
pain--
Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Locksley Hall (st. 75)
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The weakest goes to the wall.
Author: David Tuvill
Source: Essays Morall
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
Author: George Bidault
Source: None
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Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
Author: Cardinal De Rets
Source: None
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The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
Author: Bette Davis
Source: None
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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Author: Erich Fromm
Source: None
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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.
Author: Eric Hoffer
Source: None
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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
Author: Thomas ã Kempis
Source: None
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A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.
Author: Jean Lush
Source: None
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Source: None
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: None
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We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
Author: Francois Mauriac
Source: None
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We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None
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What's in Spam?
nostrils brains?and eyes
intestinal linings and uteri?
anything swept from the slaughterhouse floor?
except the blood already out the door
Spam comes from offal
Spam smells... awful
from murdering pigs Hormel makes Spam
from butchering pigs Hormel makes ham.
Author: O Anna Niemus
Source: None
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Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: None
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: None
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The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
Author: Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
Source: None
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Because he has
helped abuse lab animals
in speaking normally
or ex cathedra
millions of Catholics
define themselves as
ex cath.
Author: O Anna Niemus
Source: None
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
Source: None
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Source: None
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What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: None
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