George Herbert Quotes About Horses

Quotes about: Horses

• A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Scabs, Combs

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.370

• A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.
  [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]

  George Herbert

  Horse, Legs, Four

• The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Eye, Masters

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.160

• For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Shoes, Want

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.340

• A jade eates as much as a good horse.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Jade, Good Horse

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.341

• To a greedy eating horse a short halter.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Eating, Greedy

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.326, [s.n.]

• I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Ass, Carrie

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.300

• It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Proud

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.351

• Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Water, Wife

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

• It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Hands, Walking

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.319

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

  George Herbert

  Horse, Rivers, May

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

• Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Wife, Made

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.358

• Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Stalking, Foul

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.367

• Flies are busiest about leane horses.

  George Herbert

  Horse

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.318

• Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Sides, Behinds

  George Herbert (1941). “The works of George Herbert”, Oxford University Press

• Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Race, Long

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.352

• The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Faults, Saddles

  George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.256

• Good horses make short miles.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Miles, Good Horse

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.272

• The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.

  George Herbert

  Horse

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.277

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