Frail Quotations

Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Life is a frail moth flyingCaught in the web of the years that pass.

She's 64 years old. She's a frail woman. I think she's in a state of shock, understandably so.

One soul passes through the other, frail as smokeAnd utterly ignorant of the way it took.

My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

It has been a long haul but we now have an important addition to our facilities that will mean our frail and elderly residents have an extra element of security added to their care.

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

Our clients are poor, frail and disabled. They cannot afford to pay for their medicines or to go without them.

Robin considers that crows are a fiery mixture of intelligence, tenacity and spirit poured into a frail body.

Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

I am a frail vessel full of errors.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

While such essential care would not include the cost of visits to the doctor, our data suggest that people who receive additional assistance would be less likely to be hospitalized, and that could conceivably allow us to keep our health care-costs down while still providing for our frail elders. As our population ages, there will be more need to find economical ways to care for this group, and adequate home-based care could be both less expensive and more effective for some than full-time nursing-home care.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust,/ But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust but limns on water, or but writes in dust

What this suggests is that if a homemaker or personal assistant helps these frail elders for a few hours a day, they would be less likely to experience medical conditions such as hunger, dehydration, falls and skin problems that occur when disabled older adults do not receive needed help with daily tasks. As our government is under increasing pressure to develop fiscally feasible solutions for caring for disabled older people, we feel providing disabled elders with adequate home-based care should receive further attention.

We are but frail human beings holding onto life but by a single thread, waiting ever more for the seam to unravel to our reality, pulling the fabric of our lifestyle apart, and sending us to the floor, resembling in texture and color of what we once were, but no longer the shape of our former self.At this moment, we are at our most vulnerable, but those that can pick themselves up and carry on, can resew themselves together into a stronger fabric. They reshape themselves into a more useable form, with stronger seams, aware of their own weaknesses, and are able to progress and compensate for them. So, at that moment it is your decision, are you a pile of scrap, waiting to be laid aside, or do you wish to weave yourself together, progress forward, and create a beautiful tapestry of your own life?

Every sense hath been o'erstrung, and each frail fibre of the brain sent forth her thoughts all wild and wide

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

A frail elder without the family caregiver won't make it, but if you don't have a sense of who that family caregiver is you don't know what is needed. Assessment is an intelligent step.

This identifies the caregiver as a recipient of care and essentially as much of a patient as the frail elder. That makes perfect sense. The physician doesn't have the resources, the connections. If there was a clear referral path, they would be willing to do it.

Nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion of authority; like too strong liquor for a frail glass

The intent here is to make sure that all special-needs people and frail Floridians are taken care of, first and foremost,

The fatigue of body and mind has almost unnerved this old frame, and unfitted me to endure the burdens which Providence calls upon me to bear. I find as I grow old I grow more peevish and cannot bear so much contradiction, therefore I am called uncharitable and severe. No matter -- this frail life will soon be over.

In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.

If you can make these technologies work for frail people who are losing their memory, they're going to work really well for the rest of us.

His hair is black, as it's always been, his beard was black with significant gray ... a good deal older and weaker and more frail than he looked the last time I saw him come into court in the summer of 2004 when he came for his initial hearing.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

How frail you are. I don’t want to hurt you by accident. (Nykyrian) I’m not as frail as I appear. I know from lots of experience that I bounce really well. (Kiara) I would kill anyone who hurt you. (Nykyrian)

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

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

Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Beauty is a frail good.

For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.