Quotes with hobby-horse

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  • Buffalo Bill My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
    Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography (1920 edition), Courier Dover Publications
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • W. Osier No man is really happy or safe without a hobby, and it makes precious little difference what the outside interest may be.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Danny Mcgoorty One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
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  • Basil Bunting Poetry? It's a hobby.
    I run model trains.
    Mr Shaw there breeds pigeons.
    It's not work. You don't sweat.
    Nobody pays for it.
    You could advertise soap.
    Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Anzia Yezierska Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Laurence Sterne So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Donald Trump Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Robert Frost Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Scott Alexander The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.
    Scott Alexander
    American professional baseball pitcher (1989 - )
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  • Stendhal The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • H. Youngman The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Adelaide Anne Procter The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
    Adelaide Anne Procter
    English poet and philanthropist (1825 - 1864)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Gabriel Heatter The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • John Steinbeck The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Ovid The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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