Horse Quotes

"It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"I've got a farm in England where I breed horses"

Davy Jones, Musician

"They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning"

Billie Holiday, Musician

"So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women"

Lord Kelvin, Scientist

"Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around"

Whitey Ford, Athlete

"As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me"

Christine Keeler, Model

"We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play guitars and have a merry 'ol time"

Lita Ford, Musician

"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing"

Oded Fehr, Actor

"We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted"

William Henry Ashley, Businessman

"After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued"

William Henry Ashley, Businessman

"We also have 2 horses, but they're not allowed in the house"

Martin Milner, Actor

"If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"I ended the war a horse ahead"

Nathan Bedford Forrest, Soldier

"I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you"

Clara Schumann, Musician

"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive"

John Moody, Businessman

"An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle"

Theophrastus, Philosopher

"I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song"

Louis Armstrong, Musician

"It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"I ride my horses three to four times a week"

Eric Roberts, Actor

"By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans"

Rachel Weisz, Actress

"I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan"

Henry Thomas, Actor

"You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow"

Lyman Abbott, Author

"We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me"

Glenn Ford, Actor

"And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff"

Chaka Khan, Musician

"A husband is very much like a house or a horse"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee"

Allan Sherman, Musician

"One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires"

Robert Collier, Publisher

"For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn"

William Banting, Celebrity

"It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required"

Stephen Leacock, Economist

"I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg"

Jack Klugman, Actor

"You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime"

Jim Knight, Politician

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