Horse Quotes

"General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others"

"The wildest colts make the best horses"

"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction"

William Blake, Poet

"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business"

John Steinbeck, Author

"If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Horses pretty much broke as a record in England"

Patti Smith, Musician

"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night"

Betty Grable, Actress

"What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"I love animals, but I don't really like riding animals. Like, I don't love being on a horse - it's just not my thing"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon"

John Madden, Entertainer

"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse"

Rebecca West, Author

"The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"Industry is a better horse to ride than genius"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Religion needs a baptism of horse sense"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him"

Jeffrey Bernard, Journalist

"It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire"

John Webster, Playwright

"All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming"

David Selby, Actor

"Horses make a landscape look beautiful"

Alice Walker, Author

"There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds"

Orville Wright, Inventor

"When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power"

Orville Wright, Inventor

"I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor"

Xenophon, Soldier

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