| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Brave |
| | How sleep the brave who sink to rest;
By all their country’s wishes blest. Collins. | 1 |
| Many are brave when the enemy flies. Italian. | 2 |
| None but the brave deserve the fair. Dryden. | 3 |
| Nothing is invincible to the brave nor impregnable to the bold. Alexander. | 4 |
| Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. | 5 |
| The brave are born from the brave and good. Latin. | 6 |
| The brave man bears no malice but forgets at once in peace the injuries of war. Cowper. | 7 |
| The brave man may fall but cannot yield. (Motto of the Irish Earl of Drogheda.) | 8 |
| The brave man’s word is a coat of mail. Turkish. | 9 |
| To a brave man every soil is his country. Ovid. | 10 |
| With houses and gold, men are rarely bold (or brave). German. | 11 |
| The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring. | 12 | | |
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