Coward Quotes - Page 19

• My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Success, Angel, Views

  Preface to "Fact and Faith", 1934.

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• Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Dynasty

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Knows

  Masashi Kishimoto (2009). “Naruto: Chapter Book”, Perfect Square

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• It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Betrayal, Firsts, All The Pretty Horses

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.224, Pan Macmillan

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• You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

  Anthony Marra

  Biographies, Said, Prophecy

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• Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

  N.D. Wilson

  Hero, Weapons, Sake

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• Love is no assignment for cowards.

  Ovid

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Children, Food

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• The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Men, Brave

  Aristotle, John Burnet (1967). “Aristotle on Education: Extracts from the Ethics and Politics”, p.63, CUP Archive

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• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Ignorance, Brave

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.

  James Meredith

  Men, Civil Rights

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• He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

  Terry Pratchett

  Would Be, Firsts, Very Good

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• A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Brave, May

  "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1906.

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• I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.

  Sheila Heti

  Christian, Brother, Jesus

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• The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.

  Desmond Morris

  Powerful, Animal, Ideas

  "Rose-Tinted Menagerie" by William Johnson, (p. 10), 1990.

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• The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

  Emma Goldman

  Mirrors, Government, Soul

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.40, 谷月社

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• I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

  Graham Taylor

  Football

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• The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.

  William Butler

  Art, Fighting, Men

  Sir William Francis Butler (1892). “Charles George Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan

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• Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

  George Bernard Shaw

  Failure, Men, Giving

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2046, e-artnow

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• The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, Brave, Arms

  "Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics".

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• Now must we sing and sing the best we can,
  But first you must be told your character:
  Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.

  William Butler Yeats

  Character, Firsts, Kindred

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.170

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• I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Art, Husband, Father

  Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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• I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.

  Spike Milligan

  Hero, Legs, Cowardice

  Robert Graves, Spike Milligan, Pauline Scudamore (1991). “Dear Robert, Dear Spike: the Graves-Milligan correspondence”

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• Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

  William Faulkner

  Courage, Hurt, Men

  William Faulkner (2011). “Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner”, p.364, Vintage

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• Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Running, Men, Brave

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