Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

Michael Schumacher

Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of electronic aids will find it tough. To control 800 horse power relying just on arm muscles and foot sensitivity can turn out to be a dangerous exercise.

Mark Twain

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

Mark Twain

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

Mark Twain

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Maria Edgeworth

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

Mike Brown

I lead horses to water and if they don't drink, then I drown them.

R. Buckminster Fuller

In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy.

Psy

There's no time to be bored. I'm so busy doing the horse dance.

Piers Morgan

Don't chase women, they will chase you. They are like horses in a pasture: if you don't go drooling over her, she is going to want to know why.

Olivia Wilde

If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

Oliver Goldsmith

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

Oliver Goldsmith

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

Margaret Deland

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

Mark Twain

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

Mark Twain

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

Mark Twain

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

Leonardo da Vinci

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

Leonardo da Vinci

Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

Oscar Wilde

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

Patrick O'Brian

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

Patrick O'Brian

When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.

Patrick Rothfuss

By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.

Patrick Rothfuss

I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

Lester Piggott

After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.

Lester Piggott

On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.

Lester Piggott

A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.

Lea Thompson

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.