Horseback Quotes · Page 2

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get…

— George Eliot

Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

— William Butler Yeats

The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.

— David Hackett Fischer

I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping…

— Vanessa Carlton

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

— Genghis Khan

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of…

— Walter Moers

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

— Sidney Hook

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

— Martin Luther

I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men…

— Frederick The Great

“One Indian was taller on horseback than all the rest, broader across the shoulders and chest. Hunter. She kept her gaze on…

— Catherine Anderson

The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just…

— Tina Fey

But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you…

— Joan Rivers

It wasnt glitzy; I grew up riding horses, and I was at the barn every day, dirty, sunup to sundown. Thats what…

— Kenya Kinski-Jones

As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop…

— Deborah Harkness

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks,…

— Marie Dressler

My name, the McGregor name, my family's motto ... means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for [Aldo]…

— Conor McGregor

Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those…

— Hedda Hopper

Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do…

— Clint Eastwood

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low…

— Edgar Allan Poe

As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present…

— Jack London

I am happiest in the brush and by myself - whether that's the woods of northern Minnesota or the wilds of Alaska…

— Gary Paulsen

“Marco Polo, who wrote that Mongol couriers could cover 250 or even 300 miles in a single day. Reading historical tales about…

— Tim Cope

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have…

— Knut Hamsun

Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.

— Mark Addy

There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.

— Herbert V. Prochnow

I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until about 16 or 17, when I could drive…

— Mary-Kate Olsen

A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.

— Coco Chanel

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

— Ric Keller

Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

— Kaley Cuoco

“I didn’t know which was worse: to be killed by some brute animal or be taken off with a wild Neanderthal on…

— Anna Carey

I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.

— Brigitte Bardot

This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!

— William Shakespeare

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

— Odd Nerdrum

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

— Douglas Preston

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

— Sam Elliott

I don't think there's anything quite as dashing as a cop on horseback. To me it's wonderful.

— Mary Tyler Moore

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

— Aristophanes

I wanted to be a horseback-riding trainer and to go to the Olympics as an equestrian.

— Noah Cyrus