It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
Feeble and timid minds. . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.
Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
I want to save my soul, that timid wind.
The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
The best advice I never got. . . I don't know if it would have done any good, but to be more confident with girls in school. I actually had a couple of girlfriends, but I was still pretty timid and it was hard to ask girls out.
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.
There is a mean streak to authentic self-control. Underneath what seems to be the placid demeanor of those who are not ruled by their desires is the heart of a warrior. Self control is not for the timid. When we want to grow in it, not only do we nurture an exuberance for Jesus Christ, we also demand of ourselves a hatred for sin.
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.
A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.