Horace Quotes About Horses

Quotes about: Horses

• The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

  Horace

  Horse, Envy, Lazy

• The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

  Horace

  Horse, Ears, Mouths

• Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

  Horace

  Retirement, Horse, Laughing

• The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

  Horace

  Horse, Eagles, Brave

• The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

  Horace

  Horse, Teaching, Necks

  "Epistles", Book I. 2. 64, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 779-80, 1922.

• The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

  Horace

  Horse, Car, Where You Are

• The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.
  [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

  Horace

  Change, Horse, Lazy

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