Horse Quotes: Wisdom and Inspiration from Our Equine Friends (Page 2)

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

"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

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

William Blake, Poet

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"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

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

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"Horses pretty much broke as a record in England"

Patti Smith, Musician

"Industry is a better horse to ride than genius"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

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

John Steinbeck, Author

"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider"

Saint Augustine, Saint

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

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

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

Douglas Horton, 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

"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

"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

"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

"Religion needs a baptism of horse sense"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'"

John Sayles, Director

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

John Webster, Playwright

"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer"

Xenophon, Soldier

"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love"

William Shatner, Actor

"I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"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

"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

"I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined"

Jon Porter, Politician

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