#coward

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns. ↗

— Ovid

#fortune #prayers

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#another #another way #anywhere #being #being afraid

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#always #because #cowardice #die #live

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#cowards #endure #even #hardship #only

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward. ↗

— Al Gore

#contributors #courage #coward #financial #his

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#cowardly #fat #fight #man #run

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#cowards #makes #us

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire. ↗

— Larry Brown

#fire #firefighter #honorable #life #live

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#between #cowardly #fight #own #quarrel

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#ashamed #brave #cowardly #evasive #eyes