Horse Quotes

The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.

The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.

To a greedy eating horse a short halter.

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

Flies are busiest about leane horses.

A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]

It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)

Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face.

The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.

In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

I used to have a pony but I outgrew it and I do dream that one day I will live in the country and have lots of horses and be like a proper English lady who goes hunting and everything.

Competition is for dogs and horses.

I get to go back and ride my horses with all the people that I grew up with because that's really fun for me.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

They say I'm a one-horse trainer but didn't I make a good job of it?

I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

I spent all my youth with horses.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.

Horse is fine. I'll ride a horse.

President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.

It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts

Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live.

My horse was so late getting home, he tiptoed into the stable.

Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will roll up our sleeves collectively as a nation and tackle the problems that we confront.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether

I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.

Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses.

There's not a person in Virginia won't try to sell you a horse. It's in 'em.

Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.

A real racehorse should have a head like a lady and the behind like a cook.