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Quotes About Cowards

these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly. Excerpt From: Charles Bukowski. "You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense." iBooks.
~ Charles Bukowski
these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.
~ Charles Bukowski
The Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
~ Thucydides
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools." – Thucydides
~ Thucydides
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
~ Russell Baker
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Experience isn't any use. And yet, in quite another way, it might be. If only we weren't all such miserable fools and prudes and cowards.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
~ Umberto Eco
The light of torches resembles the wisdom of cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles.
~ Victor Hugo
Hope? The word seemed to bang from wall to wall. Hope? No, I don't think there's any hope. We're too empty here...She touched her heart. This isn't a country at all, it's a collection of football players and Eagle Scouts. Cowards. We think we're happy. We're not. We're doomed.
~ James Baldwin
That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.
~ George Crabbe
learn to draw quick and shoot straight, — the former being even more important than the latter,—and probably has to take life after life in order to save his own. Some of these men are brave only because of their confidence in their own skill and strength ; once convince them that they are overmatched and they turn into abject cowards. Others have nerves of
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The networks are business-oriented cowards.
~ Mike Farrell
Oh, how crafty of religion, I cried out indignantly, to transplant rewards and punishments into a future life in order to comfort cowards and the enslaved and aggrieved, enabling them to bow their necks patiently before their masters, and to endure this earthly life without groaning (the only life of which we can be sure)!
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Wraith snorted. "Cowards. Seriously. Who brings a gun to a knife fight? That's cheating." "You don't have a gun?" Kynan asked. Wraith made a face of digust. "It's not very sporting to shoot people." "So you're saying that you didn't shoot the people who shot you?" "Hell, yeah, I shot them.
~ Larissa Ione
Well, the first reaction was, What smoke? When I looked and saw it, and we all ran to the back where we were far away from the flames-cowards as we are, you know-all sat around the emergency door and even tested the emergency door, ready to jump out. Of course, I said, Beatles and children first.
~ Larry Kane
Cowards, 'tis said, in certain situations, Derive a sort of courage from despair, And then perform, from downright desperation, Much more than many a bolder man would dare.
~ Thomas Ingoldsby
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.
~ Thucydides
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
~ Thucydides
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
~ Ellis Peters
I tell you, those Spaniards are rank cowards, as all bullies are. They pray to a woman, the idolatrous rascals! and no wonder they fight like women.
~ Charles Kinglsey
There will always be people who will first wait for somebody's comment and then attack them. I'll say they are just cowards. They have no opinions of their own. It's very easy to be a sheep; it's not easy to be a shepherd. One should not give a damn about these trolls. One should not give them importance at all.
~ Soni Razdan
Categorical hatred is the hatred of the mob, which makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob overflowing with righteousness, as at the crucifixion, and before, and since.
~ Wendell Berry