Captains Quote by Aristophanes

An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include…

— Kenneth Grahame

I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the…

— Sam Heughan

“And here, above the valley of Yarrow, Lord Culter and his brother and twenty men from Midculter in their wedding finery with, thank God,…

— Dorothy Dunnett

There was once a little sea horse eatimg vegetablesin the prairie, then a little bad bitch came and ate her.

— Bad Ass

“In return for their faithful service, they would receive Red Army food rations, which amounted to a generous ladle, twice daily, from a cauldron…

— Alan Furst

My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.

— Rose Quiello

'War Horse' was all flat caps and thick trousers.

— Matt Milne

“Barrels of oysters wrapped in seaweed came by boat from Stollport. Fat beam and trout were carried in dripping wooden boxes lined with wet…

— Lawrence Norfolk

“The horses wore no gear at all but a halter without bit. Their manes were braided with streamers of silver, gold, and green. They…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

— George Carlin