Brook Horse

Famous quotes containing the words brook and/or horse:

“[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it’s power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.”
—Julius Hare (1795–1855)