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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
Might was the measure of right.
[Lat., Mensuraque juris
Vis erat.]
Might was the measure of right.
[Lat., Mensuraque juris
Vis erat.]
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.