“You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do”
Mark Twain
“Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination”
Andre Gide
“We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.”
Bill Maher
“The coward threatens when he is safe”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.”
Charles Kingsley
“Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward.”
William Shakespeare
“We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.”
Charles Horton Cooley
