Horse Quotes - Page 9

• And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Home, Unique

  Barack Obama's Speech at National Prayer Breakfast, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 5, 2015.

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• There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Clean, Neat

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• The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Children, Animal, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.31, 谷月社

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• The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

  Federico Tesio

  Winning, Race, Zoologist

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• There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  College, Men, Iron

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• A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Children, Work, Women

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1963). “The Alderson story: my life as a political prisoner”, Intl Pub

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• A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.

  Jo Nesbo

  Eye, Animal, Trying

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Oslo Trilogy: The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star”, p.164, Random House

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• Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

  Chris Burden

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Technology, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.419, Harvard University Press

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• There are no problem horses, only problem riders.

  Buck Brannaman

  Problem, Riders, No Problem

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• A bad ride is much better than a good walk.

  J. Peter Grace

  Walks

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• There is no wall that is high enough to stop a horse with a cart filled with gold.

  Philip II of Macedon

  Wall, Gold, Enough

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• Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.

  Bo Derek

  America, Way, Symbols

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• You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

  Jeannette Walls

  Winning, Thinking, Sheep

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them

  Walter Farley

  Book, Goes On, Companion

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• They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.

  Fred Larson

  Military, Drinking, Marine

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• Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

  Paul Shepard

  Distance, Men, Years

  Paul Shepard (2011). “The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game”, p.114, University of Georgia Press

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• Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load,
  Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code;
  I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost,
  I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Worry

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• We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judging, Pace, Walks

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

  Anton Chekhov

  Funny, Stupidity, Peasants

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• Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Essence, Fine, Compare

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1926). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist Revealed in His Own Words”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

  Franz Kafka

  Block, Gay, Journey

  Franz Kafka (1946). “The great wall of China: stories and reflections”

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• A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Opponents, Stealing

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• When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.

  Laurence Sterne

  Strong, Farewell, Passion

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.73, eBookIt.com

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• People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Riding

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