Light Horse Troops

Famous quotes containing the words light, horse and/or troops:

    “Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “An old horse knows the road.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy’s troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.”
    —Sun Tzu (6th–5th century B.C.)