White Horse Pike

Famous quotes containing the words white, horse and/or pike:

    “When cats run home and light is come,
    And dew is cold upon the ground,
    And the far-off stream is dumb,
    And the whirring sail goes round,
    And the whirring sail goes round;
    Alone and warming his five wits,
    The white owl in the belfry sits.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “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)

    “Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an
    armed robber, with a pike in his hand.”
    —Petrarch (1304–1374)