Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Henry Ashley

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

William Henry Ashley

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

Warren Buffett

If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.

Vincent Van Gogh

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

Vladimir Lenin

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

Walter de La Mare

Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed.

Virginia Woolf

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

William Blake

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

Werner Erhard

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

Wayne White

I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's like, how obnoxious, how pretentious. And that's part of my mission as an artist is to kick down those people or make fun of that type of high horse attitude.

Wayne White

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

Samuel Goldwyn

My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.

Ward Churchill

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive...

W. H. Auden

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

William Cowper

Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.

William Cowper

The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells.

Twiggy

Back in the '60s, there was a car sticker that read, 'Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,' but I ate like a horse.

Twiggy

I ate like a horse when I was younger, and not very sensibly, though no one ever believes that.

William Golding

Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?

William Goldman

The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)

William Banting

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

Wilford Brimley

I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.

Wilford Brimley

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

Stephenie Meyer

Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745

Stephen Colbert

Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse.

Stephen Colbert

What are the origins of dressage? Did just, one day, some young horse say to his dad, 'Dad, I don't want to charge into battle...I just wanna dance'?

Stefan Zweig

All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture.

Tim Vine

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

Tim Conway

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.

Thomas Bulfinch

The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.

Thomas Adams

If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.

Viggo Mortensen

I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.