Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Murphy

The educated horse is a thinking horse, and it seems that he understands every now and then something happens that he must chalk up as a mistake and be done with it.

Edward Everett

Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.

Abraham Lincoln

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

Abraham Lincoln

It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

Joseph Joubert

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

We're just going to keep our options open. He's going to run somewhere at the meet. Never say, 'Never'. When that horse is right, he runs with anybody.

Alexandre Dumas

My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it’s by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don’t be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you’ve just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.

Albert Schweitzer

I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.

People walk up and down there every day, two or three hundred people, and if that horse was out there 20 minutes, somebody would have called me.

Barbara Sher

In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn't worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

Augustus Hare

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Art Buchwald

Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.

Aziz Ansari

When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.

Benjamin Disraeli

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

Benjamin Disraeli

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Benjamin Disraeli

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

Benjamin Disraeli

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Carl Sandburg

History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.

Carl Sandburg

Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.

Miley Cyrus

I love animals, but I don't really like riding animals. Like, I don't love being on a horse - it's just not my thing.

But it was all tongue in cheek. That said more to me about the man than anything else. I had no idea and there had been no pressure on me before the race or the night before not to ride his horse to win.

Elton Gallegly

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

Jeff Chapman

My horse worked really outstanding - that's what saved me. My horse was real strong and I just stayed out of everyone else's way.

My horse just got a little tired down the stretch.

I have a new place where I can ride my motorcycle and my horses out into the forest.

I had plenty of horse all the way in the race, a lot of confidence. I know what kind of horse he is. I don't want to use him early. I want to wait for the top of the stretch.

I can't see a speed horse getting away on his own.

Buck Showalter

I'd like to see him get back down there and get on the horse.

James Stewart

One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.