Quotes of Foolhardy - somelinesforyou

“ Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. ”

- Joseph Epstein

“ Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, "There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.". ”

- Plutarch

“ One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life… ”

- Jonathan Raban
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