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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON COWARDS
A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary")
For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904, American author, lawyer)
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
Jeremy Collier (1650-1726, British clergyman, conjuror)
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.
Ralph Connor
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
Epictetus (50-138, Phrygian philosopher)
The coward despairs.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929, French field marshal)
We would be cowards, if we had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Cowards can never be moral.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
John Gay (1688-1732, British playwright, poet)
The coward threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961, American writer)
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
Dolores Ibarruri (1895-1989, Spanish politician, orator)
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, American President (3rd))
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
Junius (1769-1771, Anonymous British letter writer)
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
Junius (1769-1771, Anonymous British letter writer)
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
Marvin Kitman
Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801, Swiss theologian, mystic)
I'm a hero with coward's legs.
Spike Milligan (1918-, British comedian, humorous writer)
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist)
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist)
The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all.
John G. Neihardt
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845, American poet, critic, short-story writer)
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Irish Proverb (Sayings of Irish origin)
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Queen Elizabeth II (1900-2002, British Queen)
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand (1905-1982, Russian philosopher, author, "Atlas Shrugged")
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
Quintus Curtius Rufus (100 AD, Roman historian)
When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.
George Sewell
Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)
It is better to be killed than frightened to death.
Robert S. Surtees
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Author Unknown
As cowardly as a coward is, it is not safe to call a coward a coward.
Author Unknown
The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.
Author Unknown
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Bishop Westcott
All men would be cowards if they durst.
John Wilmot (1647-1680, British courtier, poet)
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