Light Horse Troops

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

    Few colors last; with their eternal thirst, time and light suck on them, and they bleach the black doctor’s hat until it’s grey like a dunce’s cap.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
    Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)