Famous quotes containing the words stallion and/or lines:
““The stallion Eternity
Mounted the mare of Time,
‘Gat the foal of the world.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.
A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)