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When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.
Sep 29, 2025
If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.
It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.
Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.
Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
Only weak men want women to be weak.
Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
Even weak men when united are powerful.
He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.
I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.
I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.
When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he knows it or not.
I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.
Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Strong women only marry weak men.
All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.
This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men?
All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.
Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling.
It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.
I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong man strongly and the weak man by caprice. They have but one law, to seize the power and keep it.
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.
When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.
Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.
Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or not made. You can let that rule your whole life or you can put it behind you and move on. Only a madman lets jealousy determine the course of his existence. Only a weak man blames others for his own errors.
There is no strong beer, just weak men
I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.
[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
The weak can never forgive.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.
As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.