If you define

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

~Jack Handy

I don't know

I don't know who you are,
but when this night's over you'll be begging for mercy!

~Monney,from Killer Klowns From Outer Space

Clemency

Clememcy. Thats a fancy word for mercy. The Governor can commute a death sentence. He has the power to pick up the phone and just say No. But to me, the only time the Governor shows clemency is when he don't make that call. Life in prison without parole is a shitload worse than death. Death is parole. Death is mercy.

~Augustus Hill

Grace is

Grace is getting something that you don’t deserve; and mercy is not getting something that you do deserve.

~Francis Bacon

Though justice be

Though justice be
Thy plea, consider this:
That in the course of justice
none of us should see salvation.
We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer
doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

~William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy

The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless’d;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the heart of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice.

~William Shakespeare

Reason to rule,

Reason to rule,
mercy to forgive:
The first is law,
the last prerogative.

~John Dryden

Without a dream

"Without a dream, honesty, mercy, indignation and courage must remain impotent."

~Taylor Caldwell

Things which matter

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever cannibals

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary.

~Oscar Wilde

Do not be daunted

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

~The Talmud