Black Jack Brigade

Famous quotes containing the words black, jack and/or brigade:

    “Or were I in the wildest waste,
    Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,
    The desert were a Paradise,
    If thou wert there, if thou wert there.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “This is the priest all shaven and shorn
    That married the man all tattered and torn”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 37–38)

    “Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)