For all men would be cowards if they durst.

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.

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

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

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

The world has no room for cowards.

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

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

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

All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.

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

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.

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

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

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.