Horse Sense Quotes

• Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Horse, Men, Differences

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  Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Motivational, Success

  "A Joke, a Quote, and the Word: Feed Your Body, Soul and Spirit". Book by Ronald P. Keeven, 2006.

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• Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Horse, Crazy

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• My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

  Dolly Parton

  Horse, Philosophy, Home

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• Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.

  Pam Brown

  Horse, Sense Of Humor, Equine

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• The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Justice, Would Be

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• Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

  Billy Sunday

  Horse, Baptism, Religion

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Horse, Dark

  Gustave Flaubert (1999). “Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

  Benjamin Spock

  Horse, Children, Fear

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• My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.

  Harry S. Truman

  Horse, Animal, Pet

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, World, Due Diligence

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• How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

  Vincent Massey

  Horse, Men, Quality

  Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956.

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• Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.

  Jessie Tarbox Beals

  Photography, Horse, Art

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• Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

  Josephine Tey

  Horse, Men, Gambling

  Josephine Tey (1954). “Three by Tey”

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• Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Discipline, Investing

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• Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Change, Horse, Men

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• The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

  Harry Partch

  Horse, Operations, Music Is

  Harry Partch, Thomas McGeary (2000). “Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos”, p.174, University of Illinois Press

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• The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Horse, Past, Engineering

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