Famed in Story/Quotes

Men of Harlech, on to glory
See your banner famed in story

Waves these buring words before ye,

"Britain scorns to yield!"

—Men of Harlech

"Hail! generous youth, whom glory's sacred flame

Inspires, and animates to deeds of fame;"

—George Gordon, Lord Byron

"Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds."

—Socrates

"Fame is a bee.
It has a song
It has a sting

Ah, too, it has a wing."

—Emily Dickinson

Montgomery! true, the common lot
Of mortals lies in Lethe's wave;
Yet some shall never be forgot,
Some shall exist beyond the grave.

"Unknown the region of his birth,"
The hero rolls the tide of war;
Yet not unknown his martial worth,
Which glares a meteor from afar.

His joy or grief, his weal or woe,
Perchance may 'scape the page of fame;
Yet nations, now unborn, will know

The record of his deathless name.

—George Gordon, Lord Byron

"He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause."

—William Shakespeare