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In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. - Edmund Burke Fear is the mother of safety. - Edmund Burke Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly. - Edmund Burke The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. - Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. - Edmund Burke, Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 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. - Robert Burns, Epistle to a Young Friend 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. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto III) His fear was greater than his haste: For fear, though fleeter than the wind, Believes 'tis always left behind. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. III, canto III, l. 64) Must I consume my life--this little life, In guarding against all may make it less? It is not worth so much!--it were to die Before my hour, to live in dread of death. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.] - Julius Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar), De Bello Gallico (VII, 26) Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.] - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (III, 6) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames; Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves. When eagles are in view, the screaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety. - Colley Cibber Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Philippicoe (II, 36) In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner (pt. VI) There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself! - Charles Caleb Colton We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often to despise what we really fear. - Charles Caleb Colton 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. - William Cowper, Task (bk. II, l. 659) Oh! that fear When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear. - George Croly Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie Fear makes us feel our humanity. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water. - John Dryden Displaying page 2 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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