Cowardice quotes and words of wisdom

"A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage."
Marvin Kitman


"A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit."
Thomas Jefferson


"A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites."
Quintus Curtius Rufus


"A light supper, a good night"s sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved A coward."
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield


"Any coward can fight a battle when he"s sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he"s sure of losing. That"s my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat."
George Eliot


"Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca


"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
Ernest Hemingway


"Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive."
George A. Knight


"Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside."
Unknown


"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."
Mahatma Gandhi


"Hatred is the coward"s revenge for being intimidated."
George Bernard Shaw


"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves."
August Strindberg


"It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life."
Proverb


"It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward."
Dolores Ibarruri


"The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty."
Publilius Syrus


"The coward threatens when he is safe."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


"The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner."
Mark Twain


"The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom"t were gross flattery to name a coward."
John Tobin


"When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on."
George Sewell


Interesting Quotes

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.Mahatma Gandhi - Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.W. Somerset Maugham - English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)