Horse Quotes

"By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"We get a lot of people from out of state who come down and it's not what they expect Florida to be, the horse farms and oak trees instead of the sand and the ocean"

David Jones

"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse"

William Wyler, Director

"Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse"

Anzia Yezierska, Novelist

"We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them"

Frank James, Celebrity

"The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving"

Adelaide Anne Procter, Poet

"Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order"

Maurice Denis, Artist

"But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well"

Nathaniel Smith, Politician

"I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them"

Sherwood Anderson, Writer

"Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure"

Robert A. Cook

"I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game"

Richie Allen, Athlete

"But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong"

James Wolfensohn, Businessman

"My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends"

Wilford Brimley, Actor

"It would take wild horses to get me to talk"

Gene Scott, Clergyman

"It's weird because horses kind of come and go in my life"

Danny Bonaduce, Actor

"But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins"

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author

"Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free"

Benjamin F. Wade, Politician

"Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond"

Thomas Love Peacock, Author

"There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life"

Sean Astin, Actor

"A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops"

Johnny Bench, Athlete

"It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures"

John Phillips, Musician

"I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks"

Wilford Brimley, Actor

"And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay"

Lee Westwood, Athlete

"People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this"

Stella McCartney, Designer

"I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write"

Sam Shepard, Playwright

"It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again"

Michael Bay, Director

"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven"

Charles Ives, Composer

"At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it"

Tim Conway, Actor

"You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

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