Quote by Ambrose Bierce
A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffections failure to substitute misrule for bad government. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Revolution
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Land: A part of the earths surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Society
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Cowardice/Weakness
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My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice. I can no more preach nonviolence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes. – Mahatma Gandhi

The coward threatens when he is safe. – Johann von Goethe

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. – Jeremy Collier

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. – Queens Mother Elizabeth

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Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear. – Isa Upanishad

Category:
Equality

Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. – Louis D. Brandeis

Category:
Courage

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. – Daisy Ashford

A fools brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. – George Bernard Shaw

Category:
Art