Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.
Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.
When the thunder rumbles, Now the age of gold is dead. When the dreams we've clung to Trying to stay young, Have left us parched and old instead. When my courage crumbles, When I feel confused and frail, When my spirit falters on decaying altars And my illusions fail -- I go on right then. I go on again. I go on to say I will celebrate another day. I go on. If tomorrow tumbles And everything I love is gone, I will face regret all my days, and yet I will still go on.
The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
Beauty is a frail good.
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.
There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.
Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.
Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.
If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.