Western Mounted Brigade

Famous quotes containing the words western, mounted and/or brigade:

    Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
    Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

    But all is changed, that high horse riderless,
    Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode
    Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)