“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el … 1856–1915

Bernard Crick (1929–2008) British political theorist and democratic socialist

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 6, A Defence of Politics Against False Friends, p. 115.

“The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“There is such thing as a man being too proud to fight.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

Address to Foreign-Born Citizens (10 May 1915)
1910s

“The man who runs may fight again.”

Menander (-342–-291 BC) Athenian playwright of New Comedy

Variant translation: The man who runs away will fight again.
Monosticha.

“Too fat, too thin, what the fuck are you supposed to be? God bless the media!”

Susannah Constantine (1962) British fashion designer and journalist

God's gift to women (2007)

“They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.”

Sharron Angle (1949) Former member of the Nevada Assembly from 1999 to 2007

“Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat to be an astronaut.”

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II

Said at the University of Salford to a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut, who was wishing to fly the NOVA rocket, as quoted in of the gaffe: Prince Philip’s top ten embarrassing moments" in The Daily Mirror (14 December 2009) http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-10s/2009/12/14/gift-of-the-gaffe-prince-philip-s-top-ten-embarrassing-moments-115875-21896895/"Gift
2000s

“If he believes time has run its course,
A man is a sad thing too.”

Primo Levi book Collected Poems

"January 17, 1946"
Collected Poems (1984)

“The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 74

“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
Variant: He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”

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