coward

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Cockney Rhyming Slang

is one for whom courage always looks like stupidity.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity. Bill Maher

is one who cannot even be frightened into heroism because he knows too much, because he doesn't live in the moment, but rather a little ahead or a little behind.

But you can't put fight into a man's guts if he hasn't any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can't ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don't live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind. Henry Miller

is one who is willing to die but not to live.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live. Hermann Hesse

is one who threatens only when he is safe.

The coward only threatens when he is safe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

is any man who displays cruelty toward his subordinates.

One of the chief earmarks of the coward is cruelty toward his subordinates.

is in nearly any man if he is confronted by the proper terror.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

coward, n.All

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