"Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With..." - Quote by Robert Frost
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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“There is much in nature against us. But we forget:Take nature altogether since time began,Including human nature, in peace and war,And it must be a little more in favor of man.”
“The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.”
“What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.”
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“The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.”
“The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me, you know someone has once likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”
“Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.”
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“Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.”
“Milk-livered man,That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerningThine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'stFools do those villains pity who are punishedEre they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries'Alack, why does he so?']”
“The coward only threatens when he is safe.”