Famous quotes containing the words pale horse, pale and/or horse:
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.”
—Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 6:8.
“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences.... It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)