Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong. — Monty Roberts
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. — Will Rogers
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. — Pam Brown
I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment. — Monty Roberts
Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses? — G. Gordon Liddy
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. — W. C. Fields
A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character. — Federico Tesio
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
I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. — J. D. Salinger
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
It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along. — Warren Buffett
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse. — John Galsworthy
Short Horses Quotes
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse. — George Cukor
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. — Winston Churchill
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. — Daniel Boone
Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. — George Jung
Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management. — George H. Morris
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. — Alfred Armand Montapert
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. — Groucho Marx
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load. — Paul Bryant
Horses Image Quotes
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl. — Gary Cooper
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said: Faster horses...
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. — Rebecca West
Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime. — Jim Knight
Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. — J. D. Salinger
If Wishes Were Horses Quotes
If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride. — Doug Horton
If wishes were horses then beggars would ride. — Unknown
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. — James Halliwell
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. — John Ray
If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?" — Ronald Coase
And if wishes were horses, I’d have been run over in childhood. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. — Joanne Harris
The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip. — Henny Youngman
During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast. — Marty Liquori
Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. — George Eliot
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and sixthe swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. — John Adams
Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses. — Winston Churchill
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. — John Quincy Adams
When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow. — Monty Roberts
A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey. — Robert Jordan
Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women. — Kenneth Rexroth
Riding Horses 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
There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town. — Brock Lesnar
Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it. — Ashley Judd
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride, In a one-horse open sleigh, hey, Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride, In a one-horse open sleigh... — James Pierpont
The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters. — Genghis Khan
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering. — Patrick Stewart
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever. — Richard Brautigan
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
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. — Robert Smith Surtees
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! — Nicholas Evans
Race Horses Quotes
The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage. — Dean Martin
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals. — Bradley Whitford
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. — John Steinbeck
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women. — Lord Kelvin
A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any. — Lester Piggott
The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump. — Jose Mourinho
Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse. — Juan Manuel Fangio
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
You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none. — Cary Grant
Cowboys And Horses Quotes
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses. — J. Frank Dobie
I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers. — Steve Kanaly
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. — Warren Buffett
A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure. — Rebecca Carroll
Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope. — Ron Miles
A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. — Beryl Markham
When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. — Tammara Webber
Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb — Will Rogers
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers. — Charles Marion Russell
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan. — Pam Brown
Wild Horses Quotes
When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again. — Jimmy Buffett
The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way. — Wesley Willis
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. — Ambrose Bierce
Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it. — Alicia Keys
But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless. — Elizabeth Hand
Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. — Virginia Woolf
You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running. — Terri Farley
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness! — Pablo Picasso
Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them — Paulo Coelho
This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity. — Aleister Crowley
Galloping Horses Quotes
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. — Oscar Wilde
I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word "like." — Andre Breton
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
dancing. — Honore de Balzac
Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him — Rumi
Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free. — John Denver
Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away. — Selma Lagerlöf
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world — Gustave Flaubert
There where the course is,
Delight makes all of the one mind,
The riders upon the galloping horses,
The crowd that closes in behind. — William Butler Yeats
The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day. — Fanny Kemble
The spirit is so near that you can't see it!
But reach for it... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him. — Rumi
Horses And Dogs Quotes
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. — Herman Melville
Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility. — S. Parkes Cadman
A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service. — Plutarch
I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig. — Cornelia Funke
For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit. — George Allen
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care. — Charles Darwin
I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life. — Gisele Bundchen
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love. — William Shatner
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. — William Penn
What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food. — Anne Mccaffrey
Rocking Horses Quotes
They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus. — John Keats
Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things. — Knut Hamsun
Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses. — Edward Abbey
If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse. — Odd Nerdrum
Before making a great movement, stay motionless for a good while! If you give legs to the rocks, they will start running like crazy horses! Stillness accumulates liveliness; laziness accumulates industriousness; sleep accumulates motion! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven't fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking. — John Ashbery
It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter. — Charles Dickens
I am very careful about what I eat, and I exercise pretty much every day, whether it be rock-climbing, running, Muay Thai, yoga, horse riding, stand-up paddleboarding, or plain and simple working out. — Sebastian Roche
I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs. — Minka Kelly
I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase. — Diane Lane
All The Pretty Horses Quotes
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. — Cormac McCarthy
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. — Cormac McCarthy
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. — Cormac McCarthy
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. — Cormac McCarthy
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it. — Cormac McCarthy
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. — Cormac McCarthy
It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. — Cormac McCarthy
Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love. — Cormac McCarthy
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am. — Cormac McCarthy
Horse Quotes
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
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
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway. — Jesse Owens
I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room. — Jay McInerney
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. — Winston Churchill
The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet. — Igor Sikorsky
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
Hors Quotes
When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the Golden Globes and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors doeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech. — Lea Michele
Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile. "Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me? We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings. Anyone get you a gin yet? — Jeaniene Frost
Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like -- and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres. — Hector Hugh Munro
Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables. — Arthur Rubinstein
Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out. — Sally Schneider
Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entr?es, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things ? la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure. — Edna Ferber
Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres. — Hector Hugh Munro
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. — Ben Nicholson
There is nothing outside of the text.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.] — Jacques Derrida
I feel like an hors deurve waiting to happen. — Cody Lundin
Horse Riding Quotes
A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. — Johnny Bench
I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. — George Herbert
Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what. — Grace Kelly
If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago. — George H. Morris
Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her. — Jan de Bont
The rhythm of the ride carried them on and on, and she knew that the horse was as eager as she, as much in love with the speed and air and freedom. — Georgess McHargue
I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree]. — Davy Crockett
No one can teach riding so well as a horse. — C. S. Lewis
Horseback Quotes
Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard. — Genghis Khan
I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat out on their beds, complaining. We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills. — Frederick the Great
In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback. — Mike Oldfield
Putin the poseur on horseback is hiding in his remote bunker, while Zelensky, the former comedian, is risking his life on the frontline. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback. — Kublai Khan
This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh! — William Shakespeare
I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot. — Hungarian Proverbs
If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback. — Otis Redding
Shoulder-in is the aspirin of horseback riding - it cures everything. — Nuno Oliveira
Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers. — Genghis Khan
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God. — Johnny Cash
I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver. — Adolf Eichmann
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. — Betty Smith
With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing. — Neil Young
To plow like a horse / to work like a horse. — Russian Proverbs
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