“ The brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
~ John Gay”
“ The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
~ John Dryden”
“ Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet .
~ Horatius Flaccus”
“ In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.
~ Horatius Flaccus”
“ O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.
~ Homer”
“ Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
~ Homer”
“ There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say, Though a whole town's against him.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
“ The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
~ Ernst Moritz Arndt”
“ At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin”
“ The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
~ Aristotle”