Stalking Horse Bid

Famous quotes containing the words stalking, horse and/or bid:

    “We talk about a representative government; but what a monster of a government is that where the noblest faculties of the mind, and the whole heart, are not represented! A semihuman tiger or ox, stalking over the earth, with its heart taken out and the top of its brain shot away. Heroes have fought well on their stumps when their legs were shot off, but I never heard of any good done by such a government as that.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Don’t worry about a sugar planter. Give him a horse and he’ll ride to his own funeral.”
    —Curtis Siodmak (1902–1988)

    “Onely a little more
    I have to write,
    Then I’ll give o’er,
    And bid the world Good-night.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)