Horse Quotes

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led"

Stan Laurel, Actor

"These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant"

Taylor Dayne, Musician

"If a horse won't eat it, I don't want to play on it"

Richie Allen, Athlete

"I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do"

Wilford Brimley, Actor

"I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that"

Richard Farnsworth, Actor

"One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses"

James Stewart, Actor

"The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win"

Joey Adams, Comedian

"Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not"

Frederick Pollock, Judge

"You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough"

Chris LeDoux, Musician

"I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not"

M. Emmet Walsh, Actor

"Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it"

Joe Elliott, Musician

"I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog"

Cornelia Funke, Author

"I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero"

Dick Schaap, Journalist

"It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky"

Bram Stoker, Writer

"Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em"

Big Bill Broonzy, Composer

"Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive"

Irving Ravetch

"Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her"

Jan de Bont, Director

"If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path"

Marty Allen, Comedian

"Competitions are for horses, not artists"

Bela Bartok, Composer

"They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice"

Donald O'Connor, Musician

"The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them"

Gabriel Heatter, Journalist

"There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught"

Nathaniel Smith, Politician

"When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms"

Frank James, Celebrity

"Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

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