End Quote by Orville Wright

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

— David E. Nye

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750…

— Orville Wright

There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.

— Carroll Shelby

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

— Orville Wright

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

— Michel de Montaigne

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

— John Kremer

Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.

— David Christian

No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it.

— Earl Wilson

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

— Ovid

The trouble is that too often there is forty horsepower under the bonnet and one asspower at the wheel

— John MacNaughton

Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really…

— David Eugene Edwards

A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.

— Christopher Poole