Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherrilyn Kenyon

If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)

John Quincy Adams

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

John Quincy Adams

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

John Pappas

The individual skill of the player determines the outcome, unlike betting on the horses or betting on the lottery. It's not an individual betting against the house and that's an important distinction.

John Peers

Soderquist's Paradox: There are more horses' asses than horses.

Misha Collins

Dressage is when you put a dress on your horse. It's like putting on drag, but for horses.

Miguel de Cervantes

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.

Miguel de Cervantes

There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

Neil Gaiman

I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.

John Naisbitt

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

John Newton

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.

John Muir

Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

John Wayne

Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!

John Wayne

I'm an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres.

John Wayne

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

John Waters

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

John Steinbeck

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after all the cape work when the bull tries to kill something that isn't there? Remember how he gets confused and uneasy, sometimes just stands and looks for an answer? Well, then they have to give him a horse or his heart will break. He has to get his horns into something solid or his spirit dies. Well, I'm that horse. And that's the kind of men I get, confused and puzzled. If they can get a horn into me, that's a little triumph.

John Steinbeck

At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You can't make a race horse of a pig." Samuel replies, "No, but you can make a very fast pig.

John Steinbeck

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

John Steinbeck

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

John Steinbeck

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Sherwood Anderson

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Sheryl Crow

I try to ride my horses three times a week. It's nice to be out in nature, where you can't take a phone call.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse...

Nikita Khrushchev

No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.

Nikolai Gogol

Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

Nikos Kazantzakis

This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

Nas

If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses.

John Ruskin

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

Matthew Arnold

Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

Maxim Gorky

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

Maurice Denis

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.