Good Horse Quotes

• I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

  Wilford Brimley

  Horse, Athlete, Good Athlete

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• A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Horse, World, Riders

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Minutes, Five

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• All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

  Daniel Boone

  Happiness, Horse, Laughter

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• Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Cowboy, Dumb

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• It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

  Stephen Leacock

  Horse, Economy, Flasks

  1910 Literary Lapses,'Reflections on Riding'.

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• A good horse should be seldom spurred.

  Thomas Fuller

  Horse, Be Patient, Should

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• Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

  Hannah Arendt

  Funny, Beauty, Girl

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• If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.

  Chris LeDoux

  Horse, Skills, Luck

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• I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

  Robert Duvall

  Horse, Mind, Littles

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• A good horse makes short miles.

  George Eliot

  Horse, Equestrian, Miles

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• There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

  William Faulkner

  Horse, Jumping, Feel Good

  "Visit to Two-Finger Typist". LIFE magazine, July 14, 1961.

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• Good horses make short miles.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Miles, Horsemanship

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.272

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• As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Way, Guides

  Buffalo Bill (1939). “Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill."”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

  John Tyler

  Horse, Lying, Years

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• A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.

  William Shatner

  Girl, Horse, Pretty Girl

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• A good horse is a man's best friend in time of danger.

  Israel Putnam

  Best Friend, Horse, Men

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• Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.

  Socrates

  Wise, Wisdom, Dog

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• The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

  Fanny Kemble

  Death, Horse, Would Be

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.21

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• For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

  Max Muller

  Horse, Self, Lord

  Max Muller (2015). “Dhammapada”, p.84, Max Muller

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• Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Water, Wife

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Horse, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1115, Delphi Classics

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• A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Horse, Color, Soldier

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• No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.
  Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Horse, Character, Bad Day

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• A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Horse, Shadow

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