Bridle Quotes
37 quotes by 35 authors
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If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.
— Peire Cardenal
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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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
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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
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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
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An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
— Theophrastus
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
— Plutarch
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No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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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
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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
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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
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Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Who Wrote These Bridle Quotes
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