Horse Quotes

"Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses"

Elizabeth Taylor, Actress

"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

"With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing"

Neil Young, Musician

"I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year"

Keith Thibodeaux, Musician

"I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence"

Bernadette Devlin, Politician

"My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet"

Tyra Banks, Model

"More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died"

Eric Roberts, Actor

"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

"I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie"

Dana Delany, Actress

"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

"I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse"

S. J. Perelman, Writer

"But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves"

Xenophanes, Philosopher

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

Christine Keeler, Model

"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

"What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along"

Harvey Cox, Theologian

"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

"A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence"

Pam Brown, Poet

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

Theophrastus, Philosopher

"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

"England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses"

John Florio, Writer

"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

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