If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins — Priscilla Shirer
Whip the saddle and give the mule something to think about it. — Bulgarian Proverbs
Saddle your dreams before you ride em. — Mary Webb
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him. — Jeffrey Bernard
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground. — John Dryden
You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred — Buddha
A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential. — Leonard Nimoy
The horse must perform from joy, not subservience. Praising a horse frequently with voice, a gentle pat, or relaxing the reins is very important to keep the horse interested and willing. — Klaus Balkenhol
Anger is like
A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
Self-mettle tires him. — William Shakespeare
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. — Prince Philip
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. — George Herbert
Catch the halter rope and it will lead you to the donkey. — Moroccan Proverbs
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug. — Michael Parenti
Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end. — Malcolm Lowry
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. — Leonardo da Vinci
The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand. — William Cavendish
The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand. — William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Prosperity lets goe the bridle. — George Herbert
If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. — Peire Cardenal
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. — R. Scott Bakker
Reason lies between the bridle and the spur. — Italian Proverbs
Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart. — Minna Antrim
Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur. — Hyman Rickover
Horse Bridle Quotes
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, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing. — Seneca
Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod. — Herman Melville
It is good to hold the asse by the bridle. — George Herbert
Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle. — Mary Renault
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle. — Socrates
The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth. — Horace
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle. — Theophrastus
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 in great amity with me, and friendship of each other. — Jonathan Swift
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 which makes the rich thief hang the poor one. — Peire Cardenal
But my last conscious thought was an image of Prince Char when he'd caught the bridle of Sir Stephan's horse. His face had been close to mine. Two curls had spilled onto his forehead. A few freckles dusted his nose, and his eyes said he was sorry for me to go. — Gail Carson Levine
Bridal Quotes
What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart? — William Makepeace Thackeray
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. — Gwendolyn Brooks
There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal. — Vera Wang
Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light. — Phoebe Cary
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies. — William Shakespeare
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. — Antisthenes
I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream. — Vera Wang
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. — Dorothy Parker
It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal. — Vera Wang
Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color. — Lela Rose
Bridal Shower Quotes
Love is the life spring of our existence. The more love you give, the happier you feel and the more love you will have within you to give. — Susan L. Taylor
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. — Janos Arany
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different. — John Berger
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. — Menander
Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. — Gene Perret
It was just enough to sit there without words. — Louise Erdrich
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion. — Bell Hooks
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. — Elizabeth Gilbert
The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me. — Robert Breault
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. — Richard Rumbold
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 his tongue. — R. Kent Hughes
The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God. — Herbert J. Muller
I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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 to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use. — Pliny The Elder
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 does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God's hand gives the impulse and direction. — Alexander Maclaren
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 fear as if in the dark. — John Climacus
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. But, all the way to St. Petersburg, the Finn will drink himself into forgetfulness, lose his money, horse, bridle, and return home poorer than a church rat. — Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
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 negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move. — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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
Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him. — Philip Sidney
To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty. — Joanna Baillie
Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain? — Frederick William Faber
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 from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others. — Thomas Jefferson
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. — William Drummond
The unlimited creativity of humanity has been bridled and abducted by fear, creating a real-life nightmare of cruelty and indifference so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor. — Bryant H. McGill
He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear. — Jean Racine
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination ... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. — Michel de Montaigne
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. — D. H. Lawrence
Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all. The bonds of words are too weak to bridle man's ambition, avarice, anger, and other passions, without the fear of some coercive power. — Thomas Hobbes
It is a responsibility for those that see and have understanding, and choose to not be bridled by fear, to step forward and lead the way. — Bryant H. McGill
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism. — Maxim Gorky
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. — Jeremy Taylor
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man. — Robert A. Burton
Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to
leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark. — Willa Cather
Now when you get something like the Apocalypse of John, when this avenging God is going to have blood to the bridle bits for 200 miles, I think that's venous, I don't think that's justice, I don't think that's Jesus, and I don't think it's the God of Jesus. That's the killer God, and the trouble with the killer God is that it justifies us doing the same, and in fact it invites us maybe to start with a bit. — John Dominic Crossan
I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good. — Ray Nagin
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
[Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.] — George Herbert
If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. — Plutarch
I really bridled when Parks And Rec became popular and woodworking publications wanted me to do stuff with them. — Nick Offerman
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