the horse was brought;
In truth, he was a noble steed,
A Tartar of the Ukraine breed,
Who look'd as though the speed of thought
Were in his limbs.
Mazeppa http://readytogoebooks.com/MZP21.htm (1819), stanza 9.
Mazeppa http://readytogoebooks.com/MZP21.htm (1819), stanza 9.
“Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.”
Equo ne credite, Teucri.
quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Lines 48–49; Trojan priest of Apollo warning against the wooden horse left by the Greeks.
“619. You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.”
Video interview, quoted in Analyzing Leaders, Presidents and Terrorists by Diane E. Holloway page 325 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Jc7CY1yV1g8C&pg=PA325, with NPR transcript https://www.npr.org/news/specials/response/investigation/011213.binladen.transcript.html (9 November 2001)
2000s, 2002
Fodor (1990). A Theory of Content and Other Essays. The MIT Press.
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
