Horse Quotes

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.

The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.

I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning...the faithful horse has been with us always.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.

Boy, you're like a horse. Just now sated with seed, You've come back to my stable, Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow, An icy spring, shady groves.

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

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.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

It turns out Superman is weak to Kryptonite and horses.

Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.

Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.

As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

A good horse makes short miles.

Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?

Above all, a horse should never be chastised out of foul mood or anger, but always with complete dispassion.

God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.

In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.

You never realize a dog is a man's best friend until you start betting on horses.

Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.

If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane.

If two people want to get married, get married! The Victorians had a great saying: As long as it doesn't scare the horses, do what you want. And I absolutely believe that.

In the calmness of the walk, horse and rider can find the time to think and to prepare the quality of the following trot and canter.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.