Horse Quotes - Page 7

• Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

  Billy Sunday

  Baptism, Religion, Needs

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

  Will Rogers

  Running, People, Racing

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Ass, Horse Riding, Load

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.415

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

  Max Frisch

  Differences, Language, Dealer

  7 Copy quote

• Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

  Tim Vine

  Beauty, Dark, Black

  73 Copy quote

• Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Cowboy, Speak Your Mind, Mind

  Texas Bix Bender (2000). “Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On!”, p.81, Gibbs Smith

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

  Will Rogers

  Racing, Farmers And Ranchers, Helping

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.

  Will Rogers

  Accomplishment, Bravery, Parks

  8 Copy quote

• Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Soul, Legs

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.157, Stanford University Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.

  Jean M. Auel

  Hands, Special, Muzzle

  32 Copy quote

• You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.

  George Herbert

  Rivers, May

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.346

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A young trooper should have an old horse.

  Henry George Bohn

  Should Have, Should, Young

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.304

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Country, Fighting

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.101

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Hate, Love You, I Can

  19 Copy quote

• If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it'll take all day. Act like you've got all day and it'll take fifteen minutes.

  Monty Roberts

  Fifteen, Like You, Minutes

  63 Copy quote

• ...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.

  Mary Stewart

  Moon, Light, White

  8 Copy quote

• Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

  William Penn

  Dog, Children, Father

  'Some Fruits of Solitude' pt. 1, no. 85

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Flower, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Writing, Racing

  "The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights". Book by John Steinbeck, 1976.

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

  John Heywood

  Birthday, Gratitude, Italian

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.391

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.

  Will Rogers

  Gasoline, Farmers, Raises

  8 Copy quote

• They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

  Will Rogers

  Car, Miracle, Used

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's nothin' in life that's worth doin', if it cain't be done from a horse.

  Red Steagall

  Cowboy, Done, Cain

  13 Copy quote

• All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

  Louis Armstrong

  Funny, Music, Song

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 7 July 1971

  90 Copy quote

  Show source

• We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Running, Intelligent

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source