Light Horse Troops

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

    I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
    Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse
    and his rider.
    Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
    Bible: Hebrew Job (l. XXXIX, 17–19)

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