Feeble
Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.
To make feble; to enfeeble.
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Feeble Quotations
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William Shakespeare
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
Henry Miller
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
Elizabeth I
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia Woolf
A feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
John Chrysostom
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
Black Elk
Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
Sara Teasdale
The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
Taylor Caldwell
Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
Martin Van Buren
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
Travis Barker
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
Ralph Nader
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla
Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?
Muqtada al Sadr
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
Robert Smithson
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
George Henry Lewes
When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.
John Strachan
It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.
Andy Summers
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
Anne Sullivan Macy
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Maurice Maeterlinck
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
Richard Holloway
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Feeble Translations
feeble in German is schwach
feeble in Latin is tenuis, consenesco
feeble in Norwegian is svak
feeble in Swedish is matt, klen, svag
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