Horse Quotes - Page 4

• It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

  Stephen Leacock

  Economy, Flasks, Cents

  1910 Literary Lapses,'Reflections on Riding'.

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• By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Majestic, Palaces, Reason

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• You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

  Stan Laurel

  Teach A Man To Fish, Water, Marine Corps

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• There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.

  Will Rogers

  Riding, Equestrian, Prancing

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management.

  George H. Morris

  Mean, Attention, Equestrian

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• There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

  William Faulkner

  Jumping, Feel Good, Risk

  "Visit to Two-Finger Typist". LIFE magazine, July 14, 1961.

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• If in another world there is any riding — and God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses — I cannot but think that there will be a soft swishing as of the footsteps of some invisible horse heard occasionally on the familiar trails over which the equestrian statue is to look.

  Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

  Heaven, Equestrian, Should

  "Thirty Tales & Sketches".

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• The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale

  Jeff Griffin

  Blood, Noble, Flesh

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• If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

  Thomas Fuller

  Travel, Home, Journey

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• He doth nothing but talk of his horses.

  William Shakespeare

  Equestrian, Medieval War

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [43]

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• I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

  John Galsworthy

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Alive

  John Galsworthy (1937). “Glimpses & Reflections”

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• If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you on a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair... when I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them.

  Monica Dickens

  Wise, Feet, Long

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• The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

  John Ray

  Thinking, Poor Richard, One Thing

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.12

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• Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.

  Charles Marion Russell

  Cowboy, Men, Thinking

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• Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dark, Soul, Dark Souls

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humor

  1937 Line delivered in A Day at the Races (screenplay by George Seaton, Robert Pirosh and George Oppenheimer).

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• There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be.

  Andy Adams

  Faces, May, Forgotten

  Andy Adams (2015). “The Log of a Cowboy”, p.85, Booklassic

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• After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.

  Will Rogers

  Kids, Play, Guy

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• Good horses make short miles.

  George Herbert

  Miles, Good Horse, Horsemanship

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

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• Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

  Rudolf G. Binding

  Mean, Men, Feet

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• Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

  Duke of Wellington

  Doe, Born, Being Irish

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• A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.

  Prince Philip

  Equestrian, Excuse, Arcs

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• A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Anger

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  World, Riders, Good Horse

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• The canter is a cure for every evil.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Evil, Equestrian, Sickness

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