Weakest Link

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)

“Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“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)