“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.”
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American comedian 1906–1998Related quotes

“We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.”

“Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.”
Quoted by William Hazlitt in Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A. http://books.google.com/books?id=PzQ1AQAAIAAJ&q="Fashion+is+gentility+running+away+from+vulgarity+and+afraid+of+being+overtaken+by+it"&pg=PA264#v=onepage (1830)

Muammar Gaddafi at the Doha Summit (30 March 2009) http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/2064.htm.
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“It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.”
Babbitt (1922), Ch. 25

Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 36