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Timorous Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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,…
More Timorous Quotes
- Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have… — Pat Oliphant
- 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
- The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under… — 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… — Robertson Davies
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it;… — Samuel Johnson
- Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions. — H. L. Mencken