Quote by Mark Twain
There are several good protections against temptation, but the sur

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. – Mark Twain

Other quotes by Mark Twain

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. – Mark Twain

Category:
Government
Read Quote

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. – Mark Twain

Category:
Read Quote

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way. – Mark Twain

Category:
Cats
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Fear
category

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. Im always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there! – Camille Pissarro

Category:
Fear

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: Id hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. – Anne Lamott

Category:
Fear

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But Ive written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, Ive done it all. – Melissa Rosenberg

Category:
Fear

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. – Robert Fulghum

Category:
Fear

Random Quotes

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. – Georg Simmel

Category:
relationship

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. – Charles Stanley

Category:
Education

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. – H. L. Mencken

Category:
Cruelty

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation. – Gerald Scarfe

Category:
sad