Famous quotes containing the words weakest link, weakest and/or link:
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“This sand seemed to us the connecting link between land and water. It was a kind of water on which you could walk, and you could see the ripple-marks on its surface, produced by the winds, precisely like those at the bottom of a brook or lake. We had read that Mussulmans are permitted by the Koran to perform their ablutions in sand when they cannot get water, a necessary indulgence in Arabia, and we now understand the propriety of this provision.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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