Armitage gave himself a mental kick for what he termed his imbecility, and went back to the hotel. ❋ Charles King (1888)
If youth, inexperience or just plain imbecility factors in to make the killing a waste through loss of meat or trophy -- I say we give the goofball a good stomping! ❋ Unknown (2008)
Young men are more frequently wanton and dissolute than old men; but yet, as it is not all young men that are so, but the bad set among them, even so senile folly -- usually called imbecility -- applies to old men of unsound character, not to all. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (1874)
The TRUSTEE himself should determine that, by such testimony as he approves, and not appear to seek to bolster up the decisions of truth and faithfulness, by calling on Indian ignorance and imbecility, which is subject to be operated on by every species of selfishness. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)
_that_, by such testimony as he approves, and not appear to seek to bolster up the decisions of truth and faithfulness, by calling on Indian ignorance and imbecility, which is subject to be operated on by every species of selfishness. ❋ Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1828)
It takes a special kind of imbecility to continue contradicting oneself even after the contradiction has been pointed out. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Those who so deplore my 'imbecility' and 'incapacity' are the very men who are endeavoring to bring about a collision between the people of Kansas and the troops under General Ewing's command. ❋ John M. Schofield (N/A)
Urged on by the emissaries of that colossal superstition which casts its shadow over this Republic (whose home is a foreign kingdom, and whose head is a foreign prince), the semi-barbarous hordes of mingled races in the South American States, are a prey to successive bloody revolutions, through that imbecility which is the sure result of the amalgamation of civilization with barbarism. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The man recovered himself slowly, and then affected that look of imbecility which is invariably the Dutchman's effort at self-protection when he is cornered by a question which he does not wish to answer. ❋ Lionel James (1913)
Jefferson expressed himself as being ardently desirous of seeing a good system commenced for raising the condition both of the body and the mind of the slaves to what it ought to be as fast as the "imbecility" of their then existence and other circumstances, which could not be neglected, would admit. ❋ Carter Godwin Woodson (1912)
Hume agreed with Johnson about the 'imbecility' of the government; but he drew from it different conclusions. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
They are complaining of the "imbecility" of President Lincoln, as they complained of the ❋ Unknown (1861)
It is the vice of noble and generous minds, the exuberance of magnanimity, and the ebullition of genius; and is therefore not regarded with much tenderness, because it never flatters us by that appearance of softness and imbecility which is commonly necessary to conciliate compassion. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)
Domenech made it clear on Monday that he backed the FFF's decision to expel Anelka and attacked the "imbecility" of the squad for boycotting training on Sunday. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And we paid that fool Watt and his underlings big money to produce this kind of imbecility! ❋ Unknown (2009)
It takes a rare kind of imbecility to blame "Bush" for the financial crisis caused by 25 years of government meddling in the mortgage markets. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Apparently Mr. Barber believes such "imbecility" should continue into the twenty-first century.
He is for some time a raving maniac, and then falls into a state of gay and compassionable imbecility, which is described with inimitable beauty in the close of this story.” ❋ Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 (1903)
