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“We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.”

May Comedy Hero Humorous Faults Creator Satire Coward Charming Ridicule Knights Resemblance Authorship Frivolity

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.”

Knows Men Peace Mistake Know How Oppression Coward God Knows

Book:Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...

Source: Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...

“A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.”

Men Would Be Faces Lying Brave Liars Coward Falsehood Be Brave Shrinks

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.”

Men Firsts Lying Imagine Color Regard Brave Paint Vices Horrible Coward Abandoned Despise Disgusting Testimony Disgraceful Affording

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“A coward's courage is in his tongue.”

Tongue Coward Cowardice

Author:Edmund Burke

“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. If one colony member devotes its life to service over marriage, the individual is of benefit to the society, even though it does not have personal offspring. A soldier going into battle will benefit his country, but he runs a higher risk of death than one who does not. An altruist benefits the group, but a layabout or coward who saves his own energy and reduces his bodily risk passes the resulting social cost to others.”

Ifs Doe Country Running Individual Energy Social Sin Results Virtue Risk Groups Higher Battle Cost Members Benefits Soldier Selfishness Coward Altruism Versus Selection Offspring Colony

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.”

Cutting Weapons Coward Cowardice Pierce

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.”

May War Ends Enough Hands Easy Difficult Willing Arms Lays Coward Commencement Termination

Author:Sallust

“The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all.”

Fighting Sinner Coward

Author:John Neihardt

“A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.”

Coward Cautious Misers Thrifty

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.”

“Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”

Ifs Men Firsts Real Fighting Hell He Man Hero Battle Brave Scared Every Man Liars Coward Brave Man Real Heroes

Author:George S. Patton

“The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer”

Differences Five Minutes Hero Sticks Coward Five Minutes

Author:Brian Tracy

“We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.”

Mind Suffering Depression Patience Strikes Coward Misfortunes Daring Constancy Strike Back

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!”

Thinking Men Mind Ideas Light Able Evil Freedom Expression Brave Coward Primitive Fascists Freedom Of Thought Freedom Of Expression Cockroaches

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.”

War Country Facts Political Left Millions Struggle Written Ignorance Terrible Skins Ran Coward Countrymen Disloyalty

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

“A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love.”

Ifs Men May Dies Drama Brave Coward Brave Man

Author:Hani

“The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.”

Men War Hero Coward

Author:Alvin C. York

“Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.”

Men Has Beens War Faces Memories Hero Compromise Labels Coward

Author:Doug Phillips

“Reflection makes men cowards.”

Men Reflection Coward

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“Cowards dare others to do what they themselves do not dare to do.”

Author:Ana Monnar

“You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way.”

Way Needs Feelings Lasts Next Minutes Theater Release Coward Acceptable Terrified Outlets Movie Theater Last Place

Author:Eli Roth

“Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.”

Men Virtue Mankind He Man Innocent Coward Nonviolence Manly

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.”

Eye Refuse Coward Gallows

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.”

Men Bravery Brave Coward Brave Man

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.”

Divine Coward Cowardice Divine Wisdom

Book:None High: None Low

Source: None High: None Low

“Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?”

Fighting Greater Proof Coward Cowardice

Book:Communal Unity

Source: Communal Unity

“No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.”

People World Military Protect Police Coward Cowardice

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“It was the cowards who died many times before their death.”

Died Coward Cowardice

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.”

Together Ill Coward Cowardice Nonviolence

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.”

Use Would Be Fighting Force Bravery Meetings Coward Cowardice Physical Force Emasculation

Book:The Way to Communal Harmony

Source: The Way to Communal Harmony

“The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.”

Difficult Violence Dangerous Type Habit Truth Is Subtle Coward Cowardice Physical Violence

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.”

Care Running Leaving Dear Take Care Temples Coward Running Away Cowardice Fear Of Death Dear Ones Irreligion

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.”

Ifs Should Hard Dream Passion Fun Business Hard Work Equal Be Good Cease Coward Drag Chasing Plumbing Business Life Noel Biotech

Book:The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

Source: The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

“No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us!.... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards.... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune.”

World Ideas Whole Motivational Moving Fighting Stars Steps Becoming Gains Whole World Coward Misfortunes Spheres

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.”

Men Inspirational Christian Christ Religious Sin Orthodox Coward

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward, let us never forget the duty which we have taken upon us.... We are all proud that through God's powerful aid we have become once more true Germans.”

Play Forget Powerful Lord Taken Atheism Duty Proud Aids Never Forget Coward Lord God

Book:The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.”

Men Running He Man Brave Coward Officers Running Away

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.”

Men Believe Strong Coward Traps

Author:Bob Marley

“One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.”

People Honest Chiefs Coward Misfortunes Cowardice Cowardly Honest People

Author:Voltaire

“My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.”

Taught Hero Coward Uncles Ww2 Invaders Snipers

Author:Michael Moore

“A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.”

Source: Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.”

School Team Ignorance Months Balls Despite Convince Coward Mates Fierce Rugby Team Mate Ignorance And Fear Playing Rugby

Author:Peter Cook

“He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.”

World Whole Spirit Fear Coward

Book:Tom Brown's Schooldays

Source: Tom Brown's Schooldays

“Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.”

Dark Coward Cowardice Arrows Crafty

Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.”

Persons Film Hero Lows Luck Suspense Fortunate Coward Frightened Good Luck Threshold Best Of Luck

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!”

Speak Behinds Watches Disease Terrorism Gossip Coward

Author:Pope Francis

“The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.”

Men Should Able Community Honesty Duty Lovers Brave Corruption Saved Beast Righteousness Coward Civics Hunted Wild Beasts

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.”

Men Dies Brave Coward Brave Man

Author:William Shakespeare

“Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out . . . what I can endure . . . if I measure up. Running allows that.”

Ifs Want I Can Running Effort Endure Coward

Author:George A. Sheehan