“3366. Many would be Cowards if they had Courage enough.”

—  Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "3366. Many would be Cowards if they had Courage enough." by Thomas Fuller (writer)?
Thomas Fuller (writer) photo
Thomas Fuller (writer)420
British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

Related quotes

Ron English photo

“It takes a different kind of courage to be a coward.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

Tamora Pierce photo

“He's got courage," Alex said.
"Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almosthim and--”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

“(…) Now people with courage are needed. It is better to die, facing life with courage. To live as a coward is shameful – it is better that the coward drown himself in the river. (…) Awake! Arise! Be brave!”

Haidakhan Babaji teacher in northern India

Courage and alertness
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 5 July 1983.

Tariq Aziz photo

“These Americans are cowards, because if they were courageous, they would have confronted us face-to-face, rather than coming at us from behind”

Tariq Aziz (1936–2015) Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein

attributed to Tareq Aziz in a July, 2007 interview http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1516.htm with former Iraqi press secretary Abd Al-Jabbar Muhsen

Alberto Salazar photo

“I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.”

Alberto Salazar (1958) American track coach and long-distance runner born in Cuba

Arthur Hugh Clough photo

“Come back again, old heart! Ah me!
Methinks in those thy coward fears
There might, perchance, a courage be,
That fails in these the manlier years;
Courage to let the courage sink,
Itself a coward base to think,
Rather than not for heavenly light
Wait on to show the truly right.”

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) English poet

The Higher Courage http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/highercourage.html, st. 7 (1840).

Mitch Albom photo

“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Letter to Carl Fuchs (14 December 1887)
Context: So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

Walter Raleigh photo

“Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.”

Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer

On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661

““Show yourselves,” cried Stephon. “Only cowards hide in the dark.”
“Cowards do many things,” said the voice. “Cowards kill their Commanders and make it look like a bandit attack. Cowards plot in secret. Cowards breed insurrection. Cowards plan the abuse of women.””

Sheri S. Tepper book The Gate to Women's Country

Source: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 34 (p. 302)

Related topics