Bridle Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

• If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. — Peire Cardenal
• If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that… — Peire Cardenal
• My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live… — Jonathan Swift
• We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable… — Thomas Jefferson
• A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly,… — Seneca the Younger
• The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses. — Leonardo da Vinci
• The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle… — R. Kent Hughes
• The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed.… — Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
• He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And… — Walter Scott
• An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle. — Theophrastus
• Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He… — Alexander MacLaren
• Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of a human life… — Mas Oyama
• God never gives up on us no matter how hard we try to get ourselves loose. God does not let go. That doesn't mean he… — Barbara Johnson
• Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
• The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. — Plutarch
• No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
• You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. — Alexander Herzen
• Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without… — John Climacus
• Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted… — Pliny the Elder
• Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. — Leonardo da Vinci

Who Wrote These Bridle Quotes

35 authors contributed a total of 37 Bridle Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Bridle Quotes by Peire Cardenal
• 2 Bridle Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
• 1 Bridle Quote by Gena Showalter
• 1 Bridle Quote by Gail Carson Levine
• 1 Bridle Quote by Jill Greenberg
• 1 Bridle Quote by Ray Nagin
• 1 Bridle Quote by Latin Proverb
• 1 Bridle Quote by William Cavendish
• 1 Bridle Quote by Jonathan Swift
• 1 Bridle Quote by Sydney Smith
• 1 Bridle Quote by Thomas Jefferson
• 1 Bridle Quote by The Bible
• 1 Bridle Quote by Seneca the Younger
• 1 Bridle Quote by R. Kent Hughes
• 1 Bridle Quote by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
• 1 Bridle Quote by Walter Scott
• 1 Bridle Quote by Theophrastus
• 1 Bridle Quote by Alexander MacLaren
• 1 Bridle Quote by Mas Oyama
• 1 Bridle Quote by Barbara Johnson
• 1 Bridle Quote by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
• 1 Bridle Quote by Plutarch
• 1 Bridle Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan
• 1 Bridle Quote by Alexander Herzen
• 1 Bridle Quote by John Climacus