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Quote:Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.[Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote:Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.[Dave Barry]

Quote:Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.[Fulton J. Sheen]

Quote:The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.[Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Quote:The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.[Lawrence Diggs]

Quote:Everything done in weakness fails. Moral: Do nothing.[Friedrich Nietzsche]

Quote:If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.[Jack Handey]

Quote:Pain is just weakness leaving the body.[Author Unknown]

Quote:What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness.[Friedrich Nietzsche]

Quote:What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.[Friedrich Nietzsche]

Quote:Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider]

Quote: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. [Thomas Szasz]

Quote:When the judgement's weak,<br> The prejudice is strong. [Laurence J. Peter]

Quote:America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. [Arnold Toynbee]

Quote:Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. [Eric Hoffer]

Quote:The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. [Mahatma Gandhi]

Quote:It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. [Mahatma Gandhi]



Definitions of: weak

Definition: Wanting physical strength.

Definition: Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.

Definition: Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.

Definition: Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.

Definition: Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.

Definition: Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress.

Definition: Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.

Definition: Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.

Definition: Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.

Definition: Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc.

Definition: Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.

Definition: Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.

Definition: Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.

Definition: Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue.

Definition: Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty.

Definition: Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case.

Definition: Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.

Definition: Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.

Definition: Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.

Definition: Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.

Definition: Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).

Definition: Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b).

Definition: Tending toward a lower price or lower prices; as, wheat is weak; a weak market.

Definition: Lacking in good cards; deficient as to number or strength; as, a hand weak in trumps.

Definition: Lacking contrast; as, a weak negative.

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