Horse Quotes - Page 39

• There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

  Alice Walton

  Art, People, Vices

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• Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

  George Canning

  Men, Political, Politics

  House of Commons, 1801

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• The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Memories, Real, Political

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.194, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

  Edouard Herriot

  Fall, Race, Political

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• Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

  Wendell Phillips

  Political, Politics, Bones

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• The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.

  Walter Alexander Raleigh

  Friendly, Air Power, Aviation

  Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Henry Albert Jones (1922). “The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force ...”, The Clarendon Press

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• To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.

  Adolf Galland

  Air, Bombers, Use

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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• Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheating, Men, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

  Diane Lane

  Drawing, Age, Phases

  "Diane Lane Talks Secretariat". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Emotions are wild horses.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Emotion

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• Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Sheep, Married

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.377, Courier Corporation

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• Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by a little piece of lead, like washing drying in the wind, like a whining of horses, like seed thrown to the birds, like an evening paper one has finished reading! Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.

  Louis Aragon

  Reading, Heart, Wind

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• Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it

  Roberto Duran

  Mother, Home, Bottles

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• Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to racetracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.

  Dick Beddoes

  Two, People, Age

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• When a man is in God's grace and free from mortal sin, then everything that he does, so long as there is no sin in it, gives God glory and what does not give him glory has some, however little, sin in it. It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Prayer, Wall, Mean

  "Poems and Prose".

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• For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

  William Banting

  Illustration, Ordinary, Hay

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.17

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• If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.

  Lewis Black

  College, Years, Ifs

  "The White Album". 2000.

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• I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

  Stewart Udall

  School, Hands, Fields

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• Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.

  Friedrich Engels

  Father, Stupid, People

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• War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Children, War, Flower

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• As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Life Is, This Life, Gates

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.7, Knopf

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• I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

  Josh Brolin

  Winning, Play, Vegas

  "Double trouble" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2008.

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• Have you ever had sex with a horse?

  Paul Merton

  Sex

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• If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Girl, Dog, Believe

  "THINK TANK; Yes, but Did Anyone Ask The Animals' Opinion?" by Sarah Boxer, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 2001.

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• I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.

  Gilbert Harding

  Race, Jockeys, Legs

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