Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

Scott McNealy

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

Lily Rabe

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

Lee Evans

I tried water polo and my horse drownedthat was a nightmare.

Laura Branigan

I want a place where I can have horses.

Thom Yorke

You cannot kickstart a dead horse

Theophrastus

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.

Terry Pratchett

A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.

Terry Pratchett

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.

Temple Grandin

For example, if ears are back on a horse, it's obviously not very happy. And the eyes show that it's not happy. Now, if the eyes are nice and soft and brown, then it's calm. You can see these things in horses and cattle, and I think that some of these people are just really good at picking up these signals, but they don't realize it.

Randeep Hooda

You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.

Randeep Hooda

A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.

Randeep Hooda

I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.

Randeep Hooda

Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.

Randeep Hooda

In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. mettle: spirited bottom: capacity to endure strain

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

Sharni Vinson

I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.

Leonard Peltier

Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out and resonate in every word and deed. Yes,become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.

Len Goodman

I try to keep myself in the best of company and my horses in the worst of company.

Laura Schlessinger

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.

Laura Schlessinger

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.

Marcus Aurelius

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

Marcus Aurelius

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else...