COWARD AND COWARDICE

Related Subjects: Baseness, Boasting, Braggart, Fear, Informer, Servility, Timidity, Weakness

1. Only cowards insult dying majesty.—AESOP, The Sick Lion
   

2. Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly
   dare.—QUEEN ELIZABETH
   

3. Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.—EURIPIDES, Meleager
   

4. Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.—HAZLITT
   

5. The first in banquets, but the last in fight.—HOMER, Iliad
   

6. It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.—JUNIUS
   

7. Cowards are cruel.—Proverb
   

8. Cowards run the greatest danger of any men in a battle.—Proverb
   

9. Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.—Proverb
   

10. A coward's fear may make a coward valiant.—Proverb
    

11. A plague of all cowards, I say.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

12. Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame
    And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

13. How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
    As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
    The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
    Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk?—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

14. Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is—nor yet so good a Christian.—STEVENSON, The Master of Ballantrae
    

15. The craven's fear is but selfishness, like his merriment.—WHITTIER