Quotes
Quotes about War
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it.
The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. [Lat., Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus.]
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. [Lat., Ignavissimus quisque, et ut res docuit, in periculo non ausurus, nimis verbis et lingua feroces.]
Cowards can never be moral.
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.
The coward threatens when he is safe.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.
Only cowards insult dying majesty.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
