Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Rexroth

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

Kathleen Hanna

I'm lucky enough to have been in the age before the internet and now during the internet. I'm grateful to be a witness to that. It's horse and buggy versus car. To see how quickly things change has given me a renewed sense of optimism. Does that make sense?

Karl Marx

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

Jules Verne

There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.

Julia Cameron

You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.

Josh Brolin

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

Knut Hamsun

Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

Molly Ivins

no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.

Milton Berle

An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.

H. L. Mencken

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

H. L. Mencken

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

H. L. Mencken

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe-that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

H. L. Mencken

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

H. L. Mencken

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.

Guillaume Canet

I spent all my youth with horses.

Gilbert Murray

A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.

George Herbert

You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.

George Herbert

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

George Herbert

To a greedy eating horse a short halter.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

George Herbert

Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.

George Herbert

Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

Gene Mauch

You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

Jean Craighead George

We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

Howard Rheingold

The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

Honore de Balzac

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.