Famous quotes containing the word mare:
“Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)
“Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses ... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
Gone is another summer’s day.”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)