Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wyler

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

William Lucking

You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.

William Lucking

After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of 'The Magnificent Seven' and ended up on a horse that pitched me off and broke my leg again... I rode horses pretty well. I just didn't like doing it.

William Lucking

It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?

Virginia Woolf

And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Virginia Woolf

The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.

Saint Augustine

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Xenophanes

If horses had Gods, they would look like horses.

Xenophanes

There is one god, greatest among gods and men, who bears no similarity to humans either in shape or thought... but humans believe that the gods are born like themselves, and that the gods wear clothes and have bodies like humans and speak in the same way... but if cows and horses or lions had hands or could draw with the hands and manufacture the things humans can make, then horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, cows like cows, and they would make the gods' bodies resemble those which each kind of animal had itself.

Xenophanes

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...

Xenophanes

If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.

Xenophanes

The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. “If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods' bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.

Xenophanes

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

Wislawa Szymborska

It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.

Winston Churchill

No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.

Will Rogers

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.

Will Rogers

There is a horse here-the furthest north of any horse, and he eats fish and travels on snowshoes.

Will Rogers

Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.

Will Rogers

After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.

Will Rogers

If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.

Will Rogers

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

Will Rogers

There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.

Will Rogers

I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today.

Will Rogers

Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.

Will Rogers

Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

Will Rogers

The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

Will Rogers

Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.

Will Rogers

There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.

Will Rogers

A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.

Will Rogers

Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb

Will Rogers

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.

Rudyard Kipling

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

W. C. Fields

I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.