Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

Despair is deadly sin but worse it is mortal folly.

The success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot not what you bring with you.

Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

The world has no room for cowards.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Reflection makes men cowards.

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

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.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.