“They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,
The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.”

“Man for his glory
To ancestry flies;
But Woman's bright story
Is told in her eyes.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

“Whoa there, lad! Whoa! Gentle now! Die well, die well.”

Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”

Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934) British writer

“You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, … back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time -- back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.”

Thomas Wolfe book You Can't Go Home Again

“I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”

Alan Alda (1936) actor and United States Army officer

“Old man! ’tis not so difficult to die.”

George Gordon Byron book Manfred

“Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

“Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. ”

Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of the Philippines

“Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!”

Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet