A Quote by Publilius Syrus

The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.

Publilius Syrus

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Cautious Coward Himself Miser Regards Thrifty

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

Seneca the Younger

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

Publilius Syrus

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Namie Amuro

The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.

Kehinde Wiley

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

Horace

The miser robs himself.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

Samuel Johnson

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Gertrude Stein

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

Josiah Johnson Hawes

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.