Frailty Quotations

'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.

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

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

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.

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.

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

If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.

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

All flesh doth frailty breed!

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.

The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.

For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.

I don't mean to suggest that our hometown was perfect. We never thought it was, even then. Hope was segregated, like the rest of the South. It had its share of human frailty and vice. But kids were taught, growing up, to respect the dignity of each individual. There was a genuine sense of community in Hope, that crossed income lines and in many ways, race as well.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

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

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

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

Great for good, or great for evil.

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

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

Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be

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

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.