Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. — W. C. Fields
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working. — Harry S. Truman
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. — Will Rogers
I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them. — Chris Cooper
The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness. — Emily Post
You can fool an old horse once but you can't fool him twice. — Albanian Proverbs
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Lord Chesterfield
A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper. — Monty Roberts
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities. — Nuno Oliveira
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing. — William James
Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong. — Monty Roberts
No one can teach riding so well as a horse. — C. S. Lewis
A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense. — Konosuke Matsushita
Short Horse Sense Quotes
Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb — Will Rogers
Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them — Paulo Coelho
Common sense is not so common. — Voltaire
An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. — American Proverbs
Every animal knows more than you do. — American Indian Proverbs
Men who didn’t know how to get on and off a horse would not be much use around a cow outfit. — Larry Mcmurtry
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. — Socrates
Common sense, however it tries,
cannot avoid being surprised from time to time. — Bertrand Russell
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein
Horse Sense Image Quotes
You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.
Horse Quotes
Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters. — Genghis Khan
I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion. — Buck Brannaman
Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds — Genghis Khan
Common sense is not so common.
Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena. — Buck Brannaman
Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence. — Alexander Hamilton
I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose
of some horse that looked good to me. — Al Capone
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
The horse is a great equalizer, he doesn't care how good looking you are, or how rich you are or how powerful you are-- he takes you for how you make him feel. — Buck Brannaman
Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse. — George Cukor
Sense Quotes
The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. — Maria Montessori
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense. — Richard Dawkins
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence. — Maria Montessori
The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. — Immanuel Kant
Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun. — Adi Shankara
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. — Erik Erikson
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. — Groucho Marx
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. — Ronald Reagan
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. — Adi Shankara
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. — Gerald G. Jampolsky
Business Sense Quotes
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. — Eduardo Galeano
I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God. — Brother Lawrence
In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires. — Alan Autry
Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that. — Sophia Bush
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business. — Jeremy Collier
As a business owner, what's the sense in having droves of followers and connections if you aren't able to turn them into paying customers? — Lewis Howes
I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense. — Mohammed Dewji
For some companies, going public makes the most sense. For others, remaining private is preferable. — Vivek Ramaswamy
The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious. — Robert Menzies
Dark Horse Quotes
A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph. — Benjamin Disraeli
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office. — Andrew Carnegie
A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness. — Henry James
Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning...the faithful horse has been with us always. — Elizabeth Cotten
Kate Winslet [for Steve Jobs movie, 2015] is the darling. If you wanna be the king you gotta kill the king. I think Charlotte [Rampling] is the dark horse on this one. No one does classic beauty better than her. — Bun B
I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing! — Iggy Azalea
My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run — Amanda Marshall
That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're dark or if you're light, or if you're rich or you're poor, if you're handsome or not so handsome. — Buck Brannaman
Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse. — Stephen Colbert
No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul. — Alexander Cockburn
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. — Dale Carnegie
The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering. — Robert A. Heinlein
In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell. — Charlie Munger
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. — Benjamin Spock
Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well. — Charlie Munger
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life. — Kevin DeYoung
Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men. — Josephine Tey
The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense. — Charlie Munger
The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present. — Harry Partch
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense. — Billy Sunday
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think. — Henry David Thoreau
Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor. — Pam Brown
There's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it. — Eddie Arcaro
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things. — Dolly Parton
I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when I'm on them, and they can sense that and they get a bit paranoid. It ends up in this bad spiral where I don't want to be on them, and they don't want me on their backs. — George Blagden
I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse. — Jane Smiley
The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others — Henry David Thoreau
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era. — Jessie Tarbox Beals
Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel. — Katha Upanishad
In later years, when I started working in police ethics, I was professionally drawn back to the topic but as well was better able to see two sides to loyalty - its importance for certain central human relations such as friendships, but also its corruptibility in the sense that loyalty could be invoked against other moral constraints: it sometimes function as something of a moral Trojan horse, undermining other moral considerations. — John Kleinig
I feel connected with people because of their sense of humor, worldview, and what they think and feel about certain existential issues (things not affected, in my view, by if someone rides a horse or drives a car or talks only IRL or only by typing), not how old they are, what they use to convey what they think and feel about certain existential issues, or if we have both watched the same TV shows or looked at the same websites. — Tao Lin
Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer. — Albert Pike
Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that. — Adam C. Engst
The theatre demanded of its members stamina, good digestion, the ability to adjust, and a strong sense of humor. There was no discomfort an actor didn't learn to endure. To survive, we had to be horses and we were. — Helen Hayes
Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving. — Richard Whately
I'm lucky enough to have been in the age before the internet and now during the internet. I'm grateful to be a witness to that. It's horse and buggy versus car. To see how quickly things change has given me a renewed sense of optimism. Does that make sense? — Kathleen Hanna
When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing. — Barbara Woodhouse
How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men! — Vincent Massey
A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed. — David Hewson
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles. — Maxim Gorky
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women. — Gustave Flaubert
She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse. — Dorothy L. Sayers
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