Horses

Famous quotes containing the word horses:

    “Come, dear children, let us away;
    Down and away below!
    Now my brothers call from the bay,
    Now the great winds shoreward blow,
    Now the salt tides seaward flow;
    Now the wild white horses play,
    Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “I have just read your dispatch about sore tongued and fatiegued [sic] horses. Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the battle of Antietem that fatigue anything?”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Thou didst drink
    The stale of horses and the gilded puddle
    That beasts would cough at.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)