Horse Quotes · Page 52

The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

— Plato

I can gallop, I can trot, I can move sideways and turn around. I can do everything I need to do on…

— Daniel Lissing

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…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“An average horse can produce only about half a horsepower for any extended period.”

— David E. Nye

“In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the…

— Lew Wallace

There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town.

— Brock Lesnar

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

— Oliver Goldsmith

When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment…

— Julia Cameron

Haven't you ever heard of the saying, "If you want to shoot the general, first shoot the horse!"?' --Lin If you wanna…

— Hiromu Arakawa

The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,…

— William Cowper

Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was…

— John Ashbery

If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours,…

— Jojo Moyes

We have to stop this stereotype that for girls it's about being in pink and horse riding. We need to teach kids…

— Susie Wolff

I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better…

— Nathan Fillion

No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop…

— Bill Bryson

Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of…

— Ted Naifeh

Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a…

— Rickey Henderson

One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

— Chris Kyle

“A woman is at heart – a wild creature. But the creature itself … that depends on you. (His wild rabbit – your wild horse)”

— Ranata Suzuki

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

— Albert Einstein

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.

— George Raft

It's difficult, because when you're a popular singer who makes money, you're basically a race horse. And that's how you're treated by…

— Johnny Colt

I'd be willing to do anything once. I did live bass fishing on TV. I've done horse jumping... so clearly I'm not…

— Joe Buck

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

— Pete Rose

On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from…

— Ilona Andrews

The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.

— Libba Bray

I'm in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they're show horses or show dogs. You've got to keep them groomed.

— Dolly Parton

Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.

— Russell Green

I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

— Kate Upton

Once I catch you and the kissing starts, a team of wild horses couldn't tear us apart.

— Elvis Presley

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to…

— Jonathan Levine

One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off…

— Anonymous

“A pure breed of steed is steered sheerly by the shadow of the lash, but even the spur cannot stir a mount…

— Andrew Chugg

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

— Eric Cantor

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you…

— Don Winslow

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

— Nicolas Chamfort

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the…

— Ti West

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

— Mary Renault

“Horses are mirrors. They'll show you back whatever you show them. Watch a man with a horse, and you'll see what's inside…

— Mary Doria Russell