Horse Quotes - Page 8

• There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.

  Will Rogers

  Made, Superiors

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• No ride is ever the last one. No horse is ever the last one you will have. Somehow there will always be other horses, other places to ride them.

  Monica Dickens

  Lasts

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• Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Home, Whirlwind, Equine

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• A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Pushing, Equestrian, Riding

  "Reflections on Equestrian Art". Book by Nuno Oliveira, 1965.

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• He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

  Stephen Leacock

  Rooms, Economy, Exasperation

  Nonsense Novels "Gertrude the Governess; or, Simple Seventeen" (1911)

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• Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

  William Shakespeare

  Should Have, Looks, Proud

  'Venus And Adonis' (1593) l. 295

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• Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

  Debbie Macomber

  Cowboy, Grandpa, Bulls

  Debbie Macomber (2013). “Texas Two-Step”, p.98, Harlequin

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• Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.

  William Cowper

  Kissing, Saddles, Courses

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.208

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• On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally find out whether a man had been a horse-thief, or an embezzler or a wife-beater, if you worked hard enough, but acts of kindness, of charity, a gay spirit, vanished without leaving a trace.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Kindness, Gay, Men

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• I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Envy, Sick, Simplicity

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

  Alfred Austin

  Food, Journey, Garden

  "Fictional character: Alex Blake". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 5: "The Good Earth", www.imdb.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.

  Buffalo Bill

  Track, Buffalo, Made

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.172, U of Nebraska Press

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• They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

  Billie Holiday

  Funny, Science, Technology

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• The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

  Jackie Kennedy

  History, Political, Sound

  Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys (1984)

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• You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!

  Joe E. Lewis

  Water, Floats, Ifs

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• The best thing for the inside of a man, is the outside of a horse.

  R. F. Delderfield

  Men, Best Things

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• Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

  Nikolai Gogol

  Song, Home, Air

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• The sight of him did something to me I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming.

  Walt Morey

  Dream, Sight, Able

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• Don't put the cart before the horse.

  John Heywood

  Patience, Carts

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• You can never rely on a horse that is educated by fear. There will always be something that he fears more than you. But, when he trusts you, he will ask you, what to do when he is afraid.

  Antoine de Pluvinel

  Trust, Fear, Asking

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• Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

  Thomas Fuller

  Thinking, Packs

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• Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope.

  Ron Miles

  Cowboy, Yarn, Riding

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• The number one worst piece of horsemanship on earth is violence.

  Monty Roberts

  Numbers, Pieces, Earth

  FaceBook post by Monty Roberts from Sep 05, 2011

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• Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

  Martin Heidegger

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Wish, Tongue, Speed

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.80, BookCaps Study Guides

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