A Quote by Anacreon

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

Anacreon

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Brave Cowardly Spares War

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Anacreon
Greek - Poet

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

Alistair Maclean

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

Robert M. La Follette

Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

Seneca the Elder

One spares old people just as one spares children.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

Mahatma Gandhi

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

Euripides

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

Terry Pratchett

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

John Steinbeck

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

Sallust

Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

Phil Lord

When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

Paul McCartney

There is a “yoga body” aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, “Wow, you're so brave,” simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.