Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Andre

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

C. S. Lewis

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

C. S. Lewis

A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.

C. S. Lewis

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

C. S. Lewis

I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

Chris Gratton

We have to get on our horse and start climbing. We have to make a push when we get back.

Abba Eban

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]

Charles Caleb Colton

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Charles Caleb Colton

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

Charlotte Bronte

Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.

Charles Spurgeon

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

Branch Rickey

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

Charles Baudelaire

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

Elias Hicks

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you,

Carl Gustav Jung

We live in a time when there dawns upon us a realization that the people on the other side of the mountain are not made up exclusively of redheaded devils responsible for all the evil on this side of the mountain

Austin O'Malley

The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.

David Hume

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Dwight Yorke

What do I like about Spurs? The flairness

Graham Roberts

Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.

Honore de Balzac

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Hyman Rickover

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Tobias Smollett

Opposition is the very spur of love.

John Milton

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

Joseph Joubert

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Eric Balfour

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.