Horse Quotes - Page 34

• Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Doors, Peaceful

  Walt Whitman, Howard Nelson (2010). “Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman”, p.142, North Atlantic Books

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• "Chaunt in his ear delusions magical,
  That he may fight the horses of the sea."
  The Druids took them to their mystery,
  And chaunted for three days.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fighting, Sea, Sailing

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay - whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Believe, Native American

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1417, Best Books on

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• Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are built of the same bones. No engineer, starting from scratch each time, would have built such disparate structures from the same parts.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Time, People, Bats

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• When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Writing, Giving

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• That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Racks

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 9

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• Put it back in the horse!

  H. Allen Smith

  Drinking, Beer

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• You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.

  Arrigo Sacchi

  Soccer, Sports, Jockeys

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• It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Science, Agency

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Beautiful, Humorous, Sarcasm

  Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Rudyard Kipling, Philip K. Dick, Jules Verne (2011). “The Military MEGAPACK ®: 25 Great Tales of War”, p.295, Wildside Press LLC

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• Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say to him, "No, my horses suit me; I will not sell them." Then he goes to my neighbor and says to him, "Joseph has some good horses. I want to buy them, but he refuses to sell." My neighbor answers, "Pay me the money and I will sell you Joseph's horses." The white man returns to me and says, "Joseph, I have bought your horses and you must let me have them." If we sold our lands to the government, this is the way they bought them.

  Chief Joseph

  I Like You, Native American, Men

  Arguing against the right of the US Government to force his people to leave their lands, 1876.

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• I'm here to tell you that a champion is someone who has fallen off the horse a dozen times and gotten back on the horse a dozen times. Successful people never give up.

  Jean Driscoll

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Successful

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• So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Animal, Intelligent

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.26, 谷月社

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• Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.

  Anna Sewell

  Sports, Hurt, Men

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.6, Mind Melodies

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• A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts - such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Military, Army

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.

  Freeman Dyson

  New York, Science, Technology

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• Niko, you're halfway to where you need to go. It's the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Memories, Hero

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• One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Men, Holocaust

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• Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

  Vance Packard

  Fun, Cat, Good Friend

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• In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

  George Whyte-Melville

  Friendship, Men, Wife

  George John Whyte-Melville (1898). “Works: Riding recollections”

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• I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

  Betty Smith

  Fake People, Wonderful, Embedded

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• It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.

  Owen Hart

  Fake People, Wrestling, Talking

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• Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny Friend, Wife, Abuse

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.171

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• I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

  Henny Youngman

  Past, Gambling, Half

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• Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou comest to the end of thy days, the nearer thou mayest be to the end of thy hopes, the salvation of thy soul.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Home, Tired

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