Cowards - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10513<![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10514<![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10516<![CDATA[When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10520<![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10521<![CDATA[Only cowards insult dying majesty. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10522<![CDATA[A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10523<![CDATA[Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10524<![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10495<![CDATA[When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10496<![CDATA[E'en a crow o' th' same nest; not altogether so great as the first in goodness, but greater a great ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10497<![CDATA[Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart shall ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10498<![CDATA[You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10499<![CDATA[So cowards fight when they can fly no further; So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons; So desperate ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10500<![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10501<![CDATA[Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10502<![CDATA[How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10503<![CDATA[A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10504<![CDATA[The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. [Lat., Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10505<![CDATA[Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. [Lat., Ignavissimus ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10506<![CDATA[Cowards can never be moral. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10507<![CDATA[There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10508<![CDATA[Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10509<![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10510<![CDATA[The coward threatens when he is safe. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10511<![CDATA[Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10512<![CDATA[The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10488<![CDATA[Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10489<![CDATA[The coward only threatens when he is safe. [Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10490<![CDATA[Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards! ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10491<![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10492<![CDATA[A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him. [Lat., ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10493<![CDATA[You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10494<![CDATA[Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10472