Quotes about horse
horse morning enjoyed
Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom. Barbara Taylor Bradford
horse kings government
In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King. Barbara Tuchman
horse
A horse is simply a horse. Avicenna
horse queens book
The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter. Arthur Conan Doyle
horse stupidity peasants
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him. Anton Chekhov
horse double-bass doe
Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.' Anton Chekhov
horse ballet ballerina
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses. Anton Chekhov
horse lying taken
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you. Anton Chekhov
horse wildlife obsessed
I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife. Bella Freud
horse growing-up cowboy
My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again. Austin Butler
horse trojans used
NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs. Arundhati Roy
horse husband house
A husband is very much like a house or a horse. Anthony Trollope
horse dresses said
I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear. Anthony Trollope
horse men may
Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge. Anthony Trollope
horse doe lame
A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work. Anthony Trollope
horse civilization made
Horses have made civilization possible. Diane Ackerman
horse college men
There is also a beast, a beast of strange dimensions. He has the head of a horse and the body of a man who needs a lot of attention. He represents me in college: I was a dork-ataur. Demetri Martin
horse water racks
That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water William Shakespeare
horse use you-like-it
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. William Shakespeare
horse bidding countenance
His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse... William Shakespeare
horse equestrian medieval-war
He doth nothing but talk of his horses. William Shakespeare
horse wings
O for a horse with wings! William Shakespeare
horse memorable animal
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse! William Shakespeare
horse wish tongue
I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue. William Shakespeare
horse air fire
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts. William Shakespeare
horse air musical
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. William Shakespeare
horse may months
As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer. William Shakespeare
horse lost next performance strong three weeks year
Three weeks ago, you had a surprisingly strong performance by 'Deep Impact.' Next week, 'The Horse Whisperer.' A year ago, 'The Lost World' didn't have competition.
horse war civil-war
I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses. Abraham Lincoln
horse politics easier
It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going. Abraham Lincoln
horse war army
I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything? Abraham Lincoln
horse middle streams
Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream. Abraham Lincoln
horse school independent
I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace Joseph Joubert