cavalry quotes

A cavalry commander†said he had just been given a thousand new men who had never seen a horse and a thousand horses who had never seen a man.

- David McClure Brinkley
  On World War II. Washington Goes to War.

To fight aloud, is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe.

- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
c.1859  Complete Poems, no.126 (first published1890).

Honoria†is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of awelter-weight and a laugh likea squadronof cavalry charging over a tin bridge.

-Plum
  Carry On, Jeeves,'The RummyAffair of Old Biffy'.