The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed; And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly, But coward-like with trembling terror die


William Shakespeare
















I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man


Ernesto 'Che' Guevara













He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have


Ernest Hemingway





















It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape


Voltaire

















Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot


Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra



















As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger


Akhenaton













Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated


George Bernard Shaw



















You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do


Mark Twain

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them




Sir John Fisher














One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one

Agatha Christie












No war is inevitable until it breaks out

A. J. P. Taylor













Any excuse will serve a tyrant


Aesop



















In war, truth is the first casualty

Aeschylus




































We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era--a permanent state of what I call violent peace


James D. Watkins




















Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...


Abraham Lincoln














Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both


~Abraham Flexner

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself


William Somerset Maugham

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be


Aeschylus


















A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience


Friedrich von Schiller

















Brave men are brave from the very first

Pierre Corneille















Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war


Thucydides



















I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death


Thomas Paine


















Necessity makes even the timid brave


Sallust




















Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts




Horace























A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave


Mahatma Gandhi

“Attraction is not a choice.”





Ludwig Emil










The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary


Italo Calvino














The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life


Albert Pike



















He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own




Henry Ward Beecher



















The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe


Deepak Chopra









There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person




Jane Austen