Horse Quotes - Page 36

• To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Beautiful, Names, Three

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• Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse?

  Jay Baer

  Media, Unicorn, Social

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• A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.

  Gilbert Murray

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.

  W. C. Fields

  Used, Steak, Said

  "Fictional character: The Great Man". "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break", 1941.

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• That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Spring, Cutting

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

  Norman Mailer

  Women, Cat, Insecurity

  "The Presidential Papers (The Sixth Presidential Paper - A Kennedy Miscellany: An Impolite Interview)". Book by Norman Mailer, 1963.

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• The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank.

  Janet Morris

  God, Two, Black

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.427, Paradise Publishing

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• People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.

  Stella McCartney

  Country, Strong, Thinking

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• What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

  Chris Martin

  Birthday, Age, Might

  "We're about to be fed to the lions" by Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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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, Men, Differences

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• The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed. But, all the way to St. Petersburg, the Finn will drink himself into forgetfulness, lose his money, horse, bridle, and return home poorer than a church rat.

  Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

  Home, Wine, Church

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• Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

  Edward Abbey

  Plato, Philosophy, Cows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Central Park, Years, Giving

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

  Edward Abbey

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

  Genghis Khan

  Daughter, Wife, Enemy

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• Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

  Edward Abbey

  West, Ends

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

  Edward Abbey

  Cowboy, Hands, Cows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Naked, Weapons

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• Man was created to complete the horse.

  Edward Abbey

  Men

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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

  Two, Rolls Royce, Made

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• If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Cheer, Desert

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• And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the Gospel, they may be divided either into infidels, who deny the truth; or politicians who make religion a stalking horse for their ambition; or professors, who walk in the trammels of orthodoxy, and are more attentive to traditions and ordinances of men than to the oracles of truth.

  Samuel Adams

  Ambition, Eye, Men

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• As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!

  George Washington

  Powerful, Opportunity, Two

  Washington Irving, George Washington (1904). “Life of George Washington”

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• Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

  Dorothy Parker

  Woe, Wealth, Shame

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• One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.

  Sigmund Freud

  Powerful, Goal, Ego

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. Lecture 31 : The Anatomy of the Mental Personality". 1932.

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