Crazy Horse/great Sioux War of 1876%e2%80%9377

Famous quotes containing the words crazy, horse and/or war:

    “I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I’ve fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody’s going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I’m crazy or I keep getting better.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “A marchant was therwith a forked berd,
    In mottelee, and hye on horse he sat,
    Upon his heed a Flaundryssh bevere hat,
    His bootes clasped faire and fetisly.
    His resons he spak ful solempnely,”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “The war is utter damn nonsense—a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking [sic] malignity on the part of those who don’t do the fighting.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)