Plutarch Quotes About Horses

Quotes about: Horses

• A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

  Plutarch

  Thankful, Dog, Horse

  "Plutarch's Lives".

• The wildest colts make the best horses.

  Plutarch

  Horse, Children, Teaching

  Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1801). “Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch”, p.283

• Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.

  Plutarch

  Horse, Children, Rooms

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.395

• Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

  Plutarch

  Horse, Men, Weakness

  "Roman Apophthegms". Cicero. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

• Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

  Plutarch

  Horse, Kings, Eye

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.21

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