Standard Increasing

Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or increasing:

“When Freedom, from her mountain height,
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there;”
—Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820)

“O, she walked unaware of her own increasing beauty
That was holding men’s thoughts from market or plough,”
—Patrick MacDonogh (1902–1961)