He who has had experience is afraid. [ Horace ]
Envy is ashamed and afraid to be seen. [ Proverb ]
Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen. [ Proverb ]
You are afraid of the dog you never saw. [ Proverb ]
A wicked man is afraid of his own memory. [ Proverb ]
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. [ Dryden ]
Nobody would be afraid if he could help it. [ Smollett ]
Old Age, a second child, by nature curst
With more and greater evils than the first.
Weak, sickly, full of pains: in every breath
Railing at life, and yet afraid of death. [ Churchill ]
Dogs once scalded are afraid even of cold water. [ Proverb ]
What! are you afraid of him that died last year? [ Proverb ]
When you have no observers be afraid of yourself. [ Proverb ]
He that is afraid of leaves goes not to the wood. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He is timorous indeed that is afraid of a dead bee. [ Proverb ]
He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them. [ Proverb ]
He that is afraid to do good would be ill if he durst. [ Proverb ]
He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages. [ Proverb ]
He that has led a wicked life is afraid of his own memory. [ Proverb ]
He'll never get a pennyworth that is afraid to ask a price. [ Proverb ]
He that is afraid of every nettle must not piss in the grass. [ Proverb ]
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. [ Hazlitt ]
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. [ Horace ]
We do that in our zeal our calm moment would be afraid to answer. [ Scott ]
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure.
The dread of censure is the death of genius. [ Simms ]
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences. [ Pliny ]
Some have been thought brave, because they were afraid to run away. [ Proverb ]
I am afraid to think what I have done; look on it again I dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]
There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing. [ James A. Garfield ]
No man should be afraid to die, who hath understood what it is to live. [ Proverb ]
Never be afraid of what is good; the good is always the road to what is true. [ Hamerton ]
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. [ Hazlitt ]
I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best. [ Keats ]
To fear death is the way to live long; to be afraid of death is to be long a dying. [ Quarles ]
Be not afraid of enthusiasm; you need it; you can do nothing effectually without it. [ Guizot ]
A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like the child who sings at night when he is afraid. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law of the world, and are afraid of the world's tongue. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
We hope to grow old, and yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die. [ La Bruyfere ]
Resolved: Never to do any thing which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. [ JONATHAN EDWARDS ]
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Men have a solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it. [ Johnson ]
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid of ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice. [ David Dudley Field ]
Art thou afraid of death, and dost thou wish to live for ever? Live in the whole that remains when thou hast long been gone{} (wenn du lange dahin bist). [ Friedrich Schiller ]
In times of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid. [ Hitopadesa ]
One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. [ Horace ]
It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful; and I am afraid that, whether married or unmarried, we shall find the vesture of terrestrial existence more heavy and cumbrous the longer it is worn. [ Steele ]
Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses to reflect on itself or its deeds. Many are sincere without being simple; they do not wish to be taken for other than they are, but they are always afraid of being taken for what they are not. [ Fénelon ]