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Definition of Fragile
Fragile

Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

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Fragile Quotations

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Tennessee Williams

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Maurice Strong

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Beauty is a fragile gift.
Ovid

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Ovid

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
Paul Samuelson

Fragile Translations

fragile in Afrikaans is breekbaar
fragile in Dutch is broos, breekbaar
fragile in Italian is fragile
fragile in Latin is fragilis


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