Yeoman Riders

Famous quotes containing the words yeoman and/or riders:

    But the strong and healthy yeoman and husbands of the land, the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear no competition or superiority. Come what will, their faculty cannot be spared.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Good swimmers drown and good riders get thrown.
    Chinese proverb.