No man is a hero to his valet. [ Mme. de Cornuel ]
Heroes are a mischievous race. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Whoever excels in what we prize,
Appears a hero in our eyes. [ Swift ]
'Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead,
To know them still alive,
But sweeter if we earn their bread,
And in us they survive. [ Thomson ]
Troops of heroes undistinguished die. [ Addison ]
Prodigious actions may as well be done
By weaver's issue, as by prince's son. [ Dryden ]
It is fortune chiefly that makes heroes. [ Proverb ]
Mother's darlings are but milksop heroes. [ Proverb ]
There are heroes in evil as well as in good. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. [ Homer ]
The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards. [ Thomas Guthrie ]
I want a hero: an uncommon want.
When every year and month sends forth a new one. [ Byron ]
Yes, Honor decks the turf that wraps their clay. [ Byron ]
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from
Virtue alone is true nobility! [ Gifford ]
Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them. [ Mme. Necker ]
I love the lineage of heroes, but I love merit more. [ Frederick the Great ]
Oh! save me, ye powers, from these pinks of the nation,
These tea-table heroes! these lords of creation. [ Salmagundi ]
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes. [ Louis Kossuth ]
Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. [ Joseph Hopkinson ]
If hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a hero [ Carlyle ]
We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives. [ James Ellis ]
Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest. [ Beaumelle ]
Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them. [ Carlyle ]
It is the mother who makes the domestic hearth the nursery of heroes. [ D. Webster ]
Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays. [ Roscommon ]
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? [ Seneca ]
The real heroes of this war are the great, brave, patient, nameless people. [ Whitelaw Reid ]
Take from men ambition and vanity and you will have neither heroes nor patriots. [ Seneca ]
Those faithful mirrors, which reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. [ Gibbon ]
The legacy of heroes - the memory of a great name, and the inheritance of a great example. [ Beaconsfield ]
Our globe discovers its hidden virtues, not only in heroes and archangels, but in gossips and nurses. [ Emerson ]
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. [ Emerson ]
In analyzing the character of heroes. It is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of fortune from their own. [ Hallam ]
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. [ Johnson ]
The gentle breath of peace would leave him on the surface neglected and unmoved. It is only the tempest that lifts him from his place. [ Junius ]
There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood. [ Aaron Hill ]
Heroes are men who set out to be demi-gods in their own eyes, and who end by being so at certain moments by dint of despising and combating all humanity. [ George Sand ]
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes. [ Herodotus ]
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect. [ Emerson ]
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other. [ Carlyle ]
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he boasted, The less you speak of your greatness, the more I shall think of it.
Mirrors are the accompaniments of dandies, not heroes. The men of history were not perpetually looking in the glass to make sure of their own size. Absorbed in their work they did it, and did it so well that the wondering world saw them to be great, and labeled them accordingly. [ Rev. S. Coley ]
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion. [ Ruskin ]