Weak Side Defensive

Famous quotes containing the words weak, side and/or defensive:

“The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.”
—Georges Bidault (1899–1983)

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep in the memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)