Withers/horses

Famous quotes containing the words withers and/or horses:

“Women’s liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let’s get on with it.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

“The horses show him nobler powers;
O patient eyes, courageous hearts!”
—Julian Grenfell (1888–1915)