Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adelaide Anne Procter

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

Adam Sedgwick

[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!

Adam Sandler

I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.

Xenophanes

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

We do feel the process is humane when a horse has to be slaughtered.

We worked him on the turf for the first time at Saratoga and it was like turning on a switch. He was a totally different horse on the grass.

Jane Smiley

I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.

Agatha Christie

Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

Adriana Trigiani

The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.

Abraham Lincoln

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Work is what horses die of

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

Blake Shelton

I can't say that I've ever actually got on a horse and roped a cow, no.

Those were nice horses in that race, (but) this horse is a speed freak.

My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

I thought we had to win today and win decisively to go to the Breeders' Cup. If the horse is doing well, I think we owe it to him to give him the chance. I'd say it's 75-25 that we would go, and the only way we wouldn't go is if the horse wasn't doing well.

I thought we had to win today and win decisively to go to the Breeders' Cup, ... If the horse is doing well, I think we owe it to him to give him the chance. I'd say it's 75-25 that we would go, and the only way we wouldn't go is if the horse wasn't doing well.

Mark Cuban

Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.

Daniel O'Connell

The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.

Dan Miller

I like getting on my high horse. I look good on it. Like a knight...

Cornel West

I do believe that healing takes place on a number of different levels and that in fact black healing can be deepened by trying to heal across as well as within. But it could be that to call for black and Jewish healing without acknowledging the need for intra-black healing puts the cart before the horse.

Cormac McCarthy

What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise. (All the Pretty Horses)

Cormac McCarthy

They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing.

Cormac McCarthy

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

Cormac McCarthy

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

Cormac McCarthy

He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo

Cormac McCarthy

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

E. V. Lucas

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

Colin Morgan

You learn so many different skills on the show «Merlin». You're constantly asked to do green-screen, horse riding, comedy scenes, dramatic scenes, everything. The ability and the skill to adapt under a tight schedule is one that I'll definitely take away.

It would take wild horses to get me to talk.

We've got to get back on this horse.

Deborah Mailman

If there's one thing I could wish for right now, it would be to have one of those horses from the merry-go-round - they were the most exciting thing to go on as a kid.

Casper Dien

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.