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Feeble and timid minds ... consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
— Edward Gibbon
Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?
— Andrea Gibson
I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.
— Mike Huckabee
Sauvage, sad, silent,as timid as the sylvan doe,
in her own family
she seemed a strangeling. — Alexander Pushkin
Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.
— Michael Walzer
Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.
— Paul Arden
Chess is not for timid souls.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
— Cesare Pavese
Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.
— Alexander H. Stephens
Words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...
— John Geddes
Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
— Dana Rohrabacher
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
— George Gordon Byron
I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.
— Shana Alexander
At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.
— Randal Cremer
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
— Jean Racine
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
— Sallust
A Timid Trapeze Artist Is a Dead Trapeze Artist
— Seth Godin
She - come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself - real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and - fluttery.
— Susan Glaspell
Her words echoed in his head and a faint hope kindled and grew into a timid blaze. Whosoever. Anyone can be forgiven by God.
— Victoria Lynn
Freedom is not for the timid.
— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.
— Lew Wallace
Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.
— Iveta Cherneva
The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Timid Katy no more.. I'd moved onto good ole B&E.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
Timid salesmen have skinny kids.
— Zig Ziglar
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
— Whitney M. Young
Timid or arrogant, Charming or infuriating, and Catherine was falling, falling, falling.
— Marissa Meyer
I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.
— Evan Parker
Riches are shy and timid. They have to be attracted.
— Napoleon Hill
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety.
— Winston Churchill
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
— Carlos Castaneda
A sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.
— Emily Dickinson
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
— Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
— Thomas Gold
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
— Honore De Balzac
Ghetto Fiction with a twist take a peak it's the shit. Not for the timid or the meek don't be scared take a peek...
— Cynthia Rubio
A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.
— Emanuel Celler
Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason
— Ilona Andrews
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
— Honore De Balzac
The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
— Bram Stoker
Safe? Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.
— Patricia Lynne
Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.
— John C. Calhoun
Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.
— Frederick The Great
His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
— Charles Stanley
It was the perfect time and place for an inherently timid person like him to express hisinner pervert by peeing in public. — Ryu Murakami
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only selfish life is a timid one.
— Jeanette Winterson
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
— Don Drysdale
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
— Helen Keller
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
— John Lothrop Motley
That is how I think of peace and peace of mind - as timid birds
that we have to search for,
not bold ones that come
looking for us. — Margarita Engle
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat
— Theodore Roosevelt
Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.
— Christina Stead
I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Only the brave and adventuresome find God, never the timid.
— Harold Klemp
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A nation will not be moved by timid methods.
— Luis Palau
O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.
— Spencer W. Kimball
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.
— John Caudwell
We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
— Luc De Clapiers
Every so often, I am thanked for being 'unapologetically me.' I treasure those moments, those people, and remember them every time I'm feeling timid.
— Alethea Kontis
You can't write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they're called literary novels.
— Ken Follett
The title derived from the fact that all the words between timid and Timbuktu in very small dictionaries relate to time.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Happiness hates the timid! So does science!
— Eugene O'Neill
So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.
— John Jay Chapman
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
For the spirit God gives us does not make us timid, but gives us power love and self discipline.
— Anonymous
Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid
— Cheng Man-ch'ing
