Horse Quotes

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

There are old riders and bold riders, but no old bold riders.

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus.

I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.

African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

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.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.

Tug looked nervously at his master. Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

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

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

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.

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

I'm an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres.

During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.

We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt in his soul.

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.

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.

Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

There's no time to be bored. I'm so busy doing the horse dance...

Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.

I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.

We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.

The best thing for the inside of a man, is the outside of a horse.

...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.

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

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.