Famous quotes containing the words crazy, horse and/or war:
“Tell me, how do you cope so calmly
With crazy youths arrogant way?
Indeed, youth would be insufferable,
Had I myself not also been insufferable.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
“The steed bit his master;
How came this to pass?
He heard the good pastor
Cry, All flesh is grass.”
—Unknown. On a Clergymans Horse Biting Him (l. 14)
“Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmothers nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others ...”
—Mary McCarthy (19121989)
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