Gold Generals

Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or generals:

“We ask which means most, for us, all the genii
Or one man who, for us, is greater than they.
On his gold horse striding, like a conjured beast,
Miraculous in its panache and swish?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“I made all my generals out of mud.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)