Famous quotes containing the words light, horse and/or troops:
“If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the world’s inheritance,... these are the materials and hints for a history of the rise and progress of the race; how, from the condition of ants, it arrived at the condition of men, and arts were gradually invented. Let a thousand surmises shed some light on this story.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“An old horse knows the road.”
—Chinese proverb.
“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)