Timorous Quotes

19 quotes by 15 authors

CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns. — Ambrose Bierce
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in… — H. L. Mencken
The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins… — Robertson Davies
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species… — Samuel Johnson
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions. — H. L. Mencken
The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life. — Seamus Heaney
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. — Thomas Paine
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership… — Pat Oliphant
And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here. — Philip Freneau
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable. — Jonathan Weiner
The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes… — Steven Pressfield
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,… — Samuel Johnson
Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility… — Saint Francis de Sales
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,… — Samuel Johnson
The tragedy in the life of a timid man is not necessarily that he is timorous, but obviously there is something that dies in him… — Ogwo David

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