A real Centauröpart man, part horse's ass. A rough appraisal, but curiously true.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  Of President  Johnson.13  Apr.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  The Pisan Cantos, no.81.