Quotes with hobby-horse

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  • Buffalo Bill As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Callie Hernandez Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.
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  • William Shakespeare Beggars mounted run their horse to death.
    Henry VI 1, 4
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • William Hazlitt Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Dale Carnegie Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Bill Medley Elvis was a great guy. We'd just horse around together or go to see a movie. He drove me around Graceland in a golf cart. He was a fan of our music and was curious about how I sounded so black.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Christopher Morley Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Dale Carnegie Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Benjamin Franklin For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bryan Callen Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Charles V I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
    Charles V
    Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria
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