The Weaker Vessel Quotes

#1. For when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Louisa May Alcott

#2. The Bible says, "Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered" (1 Peter 3:7).

Stormie O'martian

#3. It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.

Randall Wallace

#4. Wash the bones, bring the body, leave the heart behind.

Tea Obreht

#5. I wanted to ask God to help me but I could utter only words, dark, useless words which fell on the floor beside me and rolled off into the corners and underneath the bed.

Beatrice Sparks

#6. The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds;
High towers fall with a heavier crash;
And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Horace

#7. Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.

William Shakespeare

#8. There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

James Nathan Miller

#9. She had helped him to endure the suffering as lovingly as she had helped him to discover happiness.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. God will really make your enemy your footstool

Tyler Perry

#12. So at a young age I learned that if I wanted to spend time with my dad, it was going to be under the hood or beneath a car, handing him greasy tools.

Jewel E. Ann

#13. Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

Daniel Drew

#14. So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!

Robert Browning

#15. For the health of my mind, body, and spirit, I choose to walk with:
Gratitude not Envy;
Faith not Worry;
Confidence not Fear;
Kindness not Anger.

Charles F. Glassman

#16. A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley