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he wondered whether it was always the young who were brave. And the old grew fearful and cowardly. Was — Louise Penny

Brave sheep are better than cowardly wolves. — Matshona Dhliwayo

[...] god's cowardly, it doesn't want to know or take responsibility for what it's doing. — Steve Aylett

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. — Charles Kingsley

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage. — Napoleon Bonaparte

That is such crap. How dare you be so fraudulently flirtatious, cowardly and dysfunctional? I am not interested in emotional fuckwittage. Goodbye. — Helen Fielding

A penalty is a cowardly way to score. — Pele

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
[Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.] — Tacitus

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger. — William Barclay

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly. — Ice-T

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . — Timothy Keller

To make a long story short, you're all vile, dangerous, cowardly ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment. — Richard M. Nixon

'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.' — Matthew Pearl

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom. — Cyril Connolly

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly. — James A. Owen

Real love, you cowardly miscreant, is never intimidated, never frightened and is forever. — Astrid Yrigollen

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. — Voltaire

Cry for cut n stiches nt for bastard n bitches...
I may b slow walker but i never walk bachward
cowardly man bark loudest... — Britt Gettys

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger, and danger has
become so rare in modern life. — Oscar Wilde

Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers. — C. G. Jung

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. — Ambrose Bierce

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough. — Terry Pratchett

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. — Oswald Chambers

Adam and Ronan lurked in the hall, eavesdropping, too cowardly to face Calla's wrath. — Maggie Stiefvater

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly. — Voltaire

I made the Cowardly Lion look like the terminator. — Stephenie Meyer

And it was cowardly for a man to say he would kill himself, but Septimus had fought; he was brave; he was not Septimus now — Virginia Woolf

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! — Statius

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist. — Studs Terkel

The Stoics forbid this emotion to their sages as being base and cowardly. — Michel De Montaigne

If you funk it, you will find yourself, hours later, in far worse danger. The cowardly thing is also the most dangerous thing. It — C.S. Lewis

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice. — Robert Kiyosaki

It's too cowardly, and besides, I don't have the courage. [on why he hadn't killed himself yet] — Nick Drake

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue. — Michel De Montaigne

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. — Thomas Jefferson

France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today. — Emmanuel Petit

Do you think Oz could give me courage? asked the Cowardly Lion. — L. Frank Baum

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger ... Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi

A cowardly warrior is like a toothless lion. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak. — Franz Grillparzer

Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films. — Ken Bates

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt. — Darren Shan

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. — Mahatma Gandhi

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul's Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish. — Julie Klausner

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. — Thomas Mann

A soul in a state of grace need fear nothing from devils, for they are so cowardly that they feel from the gaze of a child — St-Therese De Lisieux

I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I — Charles Dickens

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue. — Dee Remy

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist! — Charles Studd

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
in Good Housekeeping — Peggy Noonan

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. — Ignazio Silone

A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade - — Robert Harris

A sniper is cowardly, sneaky; he kills from a distance, unseen. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Cowardly thoughts, anxious hesitation, Womanish timidity, timorous complaints Won't keep misery away from you And will not set you free. — Edith Hahn Beer

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian. — Sandra Bernhard

And if you don't accept my challenge," shouted the Iron Man, "then you're a miserable cowardly reptile, not fit to bother with. — Ted Hughes

I made it to Boxing Day because I was too miserable to hang myself. I lie. I made it to Boxing Day because I was too cowardly to hang myself. — David Mitchell

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers. — Iyad Allawi

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go. — Mehmet Oz

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. — Charles Dickens

You charming idiot. — Gregory Maguire

You're a tough, fragile, brave, cowardly woman. — Samanthe Beck

The host thus forming a single united body, is it impossible either for the brave to advance alone, or for the cowardly to retreat alone — Sun Tzu

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. — Christopher Lasch

As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. — Tom Daschle

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. — Joseph Epstein

He is never cowardly. — Paulo Coelho

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!
The sting of conscience is indecent. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive — Bangambiki Habyarimana

When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear. — Salman Rushdie

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate. — Michel De Montaigne

Harold says one of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to Facts. It — C.S. Lewis

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write. — David Mamet

Cowardly isn't a dereliction of duty, but rather a part of our humanity. However, only the brave ones are known for their humanity. — Melody Manful

You're courageous enough to do something that in some part of your heart you see as cowardly. — J.D. Robb

So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to live; only it's cowardly to die till you have done something. — Louisa May Alcott

You can do ANYTHING you want to do-This is your World — Bob Ross

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

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs. — Kim Harrison

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. — Pat Conroy

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism. — Plato

The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it. — B. H. Roberts

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution? — Saint Francis De Sales

The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly. — Joseph Simmons

As animals go, even in so limited a space as our world, man is botched and ridiculous. Few other brutes are so stupid, so docile or so cowardly. — H.L. Mencken

It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth. — Erich Ludendorff

The world is not for cowardly peoples. — Adolf Hitler

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free ... — Adolf Hitler