“ 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”
“ His fear was greater than his haste: For fear, though fleeter than the wind, Believes 'tis always left behind.
~ Samuel Butler”
“ 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”
“ Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
~ Ruth Renkel”
“ 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”
“ Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
~ Richard Baxter”
“ An aching tooth is better out than in, To lose a rotten member is a gain.
~ Richard Baxter”
“ A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him.
~ Philip R Breeze”
“ Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid.
~ Philip R Breeze”
“ Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
~ Niccolo Machiavell”
“ Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte”
“ Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise.
~ Leo Rosten”
“ In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
~ Caius Julius Caesar”
“ The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
~ Joanna Baillie”
“ 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.
~ Joanna Baillie”
“ You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
~ James Anthony Froude”
“ There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
~ James Anthony Froude”
“ Fear is the parent of cruelty.
~ James Anthony Froude”
“ 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.
~ J R R Tolkien”
“ I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
~ Horatius Flaccus”
“ Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others
~ G K Chesterton”
“ If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
~ Elizabeth I”
“ Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
~ Edmund Burke”
“ It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.
~ Decimus Magnus Ausonius”
“ Fear has many eyes.
~ Cervantes Saavedra”
“ You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see.
~ Andrew Jackson”
“ 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.
~ Alice Walker”
“ Fear is the mother of foresight.
~ Taylor, Henry”
“ Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
~ Shakespeare, William”
“ Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
~ Roosevelt, Franklin”
“ Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
~ Ovid”
“ An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
~ Nagarjuna”
“ We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
~ Livius, Titus”
“ Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it...the basest of all things is to be afraid.
~ Faulkner, William”
“ Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
~ Bovee, Christian Nestell”