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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Cowboy, Dumb

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• A good horse should be seldom spurred.

  Thomas Fuller

  Horse, Be Patient, Should

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We have 11 horses up at our country home, six of which are rescue animals ... Two of them are 'cop horses' from the mounted police, ages 4 and 5, who turned out to have physical problems that weren't suitable for the kind of work they have to do. Now, with us, they are just out to pasture and have nothing but a good time, eating their heads off, romping and frolicking, and just doing all good horsey things.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Country, Horse, Home

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• This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Horse, Philosophy, Journey

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Father, Food, Cooking

  Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

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• Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.

  Anna Sewell

  Sports, Hurt, Horse

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.6, Mind Melodies

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• I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

  Martina Hingis

  Horse, Tennis, Underdog

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• I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Two, Rolls Royce

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• I can be very in my head, but I don't trust my head all that much. My head is crazy. My head will talk to itself all day and all night if I let it. And my heart is less nutty, but it's kind of like an overexcited child. I don't trust my heart all that much either. My body is like a good horse. I trust my body.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Horse, Children, Crazy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say to him, "No, my horses suit me; I will not sell them." Then he goes to my neighbor and says to him, "Joseph has some good horses. I want to buy them, but he refuses to sell." My neighbor answers, "Pay me the money and I will sell you Joseph's horses." The white man returns to me and says, "Joseph, I have bought your horses and you must let me have them." If we sold our lands to the government, this is the way they bought them.

  Chief Joseph

  I Like You, Horse, Native American

  Arguing against the right of the US Government to force his people to leave their lands, 1876.

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