Quotes with horses

  • One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
  • Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
  • A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
  • 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.
  • We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Ovid A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Augustus Hare A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Robert Cecil A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
    Robert Cecil
    English statesman (1563 - 1612)
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  • Dale Carnegie All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • George Canning Away with the cant of ''Measures, not men!'' - the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.
    George Canning
    British statesman (1770 - 1827)
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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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  • Robert Burton England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Alice Walker Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Victor Hugo I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Anton Chekhov I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Norman Mailer I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Doug Horton If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • W. Penn Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
    W. Penn
     
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  • Edward F. Halifax Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • John Adams Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Robert Collier One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Ben Shapiro Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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