Cavalryman's Quotes

#1. A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

Steven Pressfield

#2. I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

Danny Elfman

#3. A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

Bill Bryson

#4. ...from the big tobacco barns there welled forth a fragrance that was for these Kentuckians, the soul of autumn. Oozing out into the sunshine from every crack in the great structures, it exhilarated like an elixir, like a long draught of some rich, spicy wine.

Edith Summers Kelley

#5. If we take reason strictly, the perceiving of spiritual beauty and excellence no more belongs to reason than it belongs to the sense of feeling to perceive colors or to the power of seeing to perceive the sweetness of food.

Jonathan Edwards

#6. Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.

H.L. Mencken

#7. The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

George Montgomery

#8. Centurion! Would you like to be a cavalryman one last time? There are Venicones who escaped when your line was broken to be hunted down, and Tribune Licinius has ordered me to take the best men available in their pursuit. Leave this hairy gentleman to watch the fun, and join us in the hunt!

Anthony Riches

#9. The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.

George S. Patton

#10. Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

John Wooden