Horse Quotes - Page 6

• We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cynical, Shapes, Saws

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• Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

  Frank Langella

  Sexy, Men, Ghouls

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• Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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• I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Boys, Order, Greek

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.21, UPNE

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• Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

  Rebecca West

  Funny, Mother, Humorous

  Letter on August 20, 1959. "Rebecca West: A Life". Book by Victoria Glendinning. Part 5, Chapter 8, p. 206, 1987.

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• Words are as beautiful as wind horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral.

  Ted Berkman

  Beautiful, Wind, Sometimes

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• You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Dog, Children, Nuts

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• The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Progress, Milestone, Mankind

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

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• Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!

  Robert Browning

  Boots, Saddles

  'Boot and Saddle' (1842)

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• One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Girl, Religious, Prayer

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• During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.

  Julie Benz

  Rehearsal, Process, Thrown

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• As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

  Karen Hughes

  Girl, Thinking, Young

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• I help horses with people problems

  Buck Brannaman

  People, Helping, Problem

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• A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can read distinctly; and yet there are some people who, as soon as they get on a horse, entirely undressed and untaught, fancy that by beating and spurring they will make him a dressed horse in one morning only. I would fain ask such stupid people whether by beating a boy they would teach him to read without first showing him the alphabet? Sure, they would beat him to death, before they would make him read.

  Monty Roberts

  Morning, Stupid, Boys

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• Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

  William Shakespeare

  Weight, Bears, Antony

  William Shakespeare, Richard Madelaine (1998). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

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• Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Animal, Space

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• The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

  Will Rogers

  Doors, Years, People

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.

  Will Rogers

  Beautiful, Men, Vagrants

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• We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

  Eric Cantor

  Fighting, Agency, Cutbacks

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• The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

  Max Frisch

  Differences, Language, Dealer

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• I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

  Jeremy Paxman

  Faces, Whole Life, Whole

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• And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

  Eric Roberts

  My Own, Died

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• Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

  Billy Sunday

  Baptism, Religion, Needs

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

  Tim Vine

  Beauty, Dark, Black

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• Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Cowboy, Speak Your Mind, Mind

  Texas Bix Bender (2000). “Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On!”, p.81, Gibbs Smith

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