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No one loves the man whom he fears.
Author:
Source: None
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It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.
[Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.]
Author: Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Source: Septem Sapientum Sententioe Septenis Versibus Explicatoe (VII, 4)
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The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Author: Joanna Baillie
Source: Basil (act III, sc. 1, l. 151)
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The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights
of another.
Author: Joanna Baillie
Source: Basil (act III, sc. 1, l. 151)
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An aching tooth is better out than in,
To lose a rotten member is a gain.
Author: Richard Baxter
Source: Hypocrisy
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Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
Author: Richard Baxter
Source: Love Breathing Thanks and Praise
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The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip
To laud the wretch in order;
But where ye feel your honor grip,
Let that aye be your border.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Epistle to a Young Friend
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Fear is an ague, that forsakes
And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes;
And they'll opine they feel the pain
And blows they felt, to-day, again.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III)
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His fear was greater than his haste:
For fear, though fleeter than the wind,
Believes 'tis always left behind.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto III, l. 64)
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In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
[Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]
Author: Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar)
Source: De Bello Gallico (VII, 26)
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Fear has many eyes.
[Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (III, 6)
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
[Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Philippicoe (II, 36)
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Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. VI)
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His frown was full of terror, and his voice
Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe
As left him not, till penitence had won
Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 659)
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The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light,
And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.
But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind,
And horrow heavy sat on every mind.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Theodore and Honoria (l. 336)
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We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions
in their danger.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. VII, ch. V)
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If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Author: Elizabeth I
Source: Worthies of England (vol. I, p. 419), by Thomas Fuller, (written on window pane under words written
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The American Scholar
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the
means he uses to frighten you.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy
den, and none returning.
[Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent
Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrosum.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (I, 1, 74)
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You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see.
Author: Andrew Jackson
Source: Parton's Life of Jackson (vol. III, p. 493)
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of
God.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Recollections of Johnson, From Miss Reynolds
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Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to
negotiate.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Recollections of Johnson, From Miss Reynolds
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Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Source: None
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He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could not think of it. He began to get frightened, and that is bad for thinking.
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Source: None
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Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Source: None
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Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid.
Author: Philip R. Breeze
Source: None
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A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him.
Author: Philip R. Breeze
Source: None
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Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
Author: Ruth Renkel
Source: None
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Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others
Author: G.K. Chesteron
Source: None
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Author: Alice Walker
Source: None
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I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
Author: Leo Rosten
Source: None
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Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Source: None
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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.
Author: Winston Churchill
Source: None
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Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise.
Author: Leo Rosten
Source: None
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
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