"A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."

Bierce, Ambrose on Coward and Cowardice
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"For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on Coward and Cowardice
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"Faint heart never won fair lady."

Cervantes, Miguel De on Coward and Cowardice
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"How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination."

Collier, Jeremy on Coward and Cowardice
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"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."

Confucius on Coward and Cowardice
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"Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare."

Elizabeth, Queen's Mother on Coward and Cowardice
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"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 on Coward and Cowardice
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"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Coward and Cowardice
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"Cowards can never be moral."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Coward and Cowardice
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"Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save."

Gay, John on Coward and Cowardice
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"The coward threatens when he is safe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Coward and Cowardice
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"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

Hemingway, Ernest on Coward and Cowardice
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"When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion."

Hoffer, Eric on Coward and Cowardice
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"It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward."

Ibarruri, Dolores on Coward and Cowardice
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"A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit."

Jefferson, Thomas on Coward and Cowardice
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"I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark."

Johnson, Samuel on Coward and Cowardice
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"It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so."

Junius on Coward and Cowardice
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"A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage."

Kitman, Marvin on Coward and Cowardice
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"Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive."

Knight, George A. on Coward and Cowardice
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"I'm a hero with coward's legs."

Milligan, Spike on Coward and Cowardice
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"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Coward and Cowardice
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"It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life."

Proverb, Irish on Coward and Cowardice
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"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."

Rand, Ayn on Coward and Cowardice
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"All men would be cowards if they could."

Rochester, Earl on Coward and Cowardice
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"The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on Coward and Cowardice
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"A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites."

Rufus, Quintus Curtius on Coward and Cowardice
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"When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on."

Sewell, George on Coward and Cowardice
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

Shakespeare, William on Coward and Cowardice
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"Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once."

Shakespeare, William on Coward and Cowardice
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"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."

Shaw, George Bernard on Coward and Cowardice
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"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on Coward and Cowardice
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"A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward."

Stanhope, Philip Dormer on Coward and Cowardice
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"It is better to be killed than frightened to death."

Surtees, Robert S. on Coward and Cowardice
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"The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner."

Twain, Mark on Coward and Cowardice
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"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."

Twain, Mark on Coward and Cowardice
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"A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."

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"The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way."

Unknown, Source on Coward and Cowardice
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"One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly."

Voltaire on Coward and Cowardice
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"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men."

Westcott, Bishop on Coward and Cowardice
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