Famous Quotes - Tags - Horses

  • A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent’s courage and your onlooker’s heart—what... More
  • A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle. More
  • A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! More
  • Ae spring brought off her master hale,
    But left behind her ain grey tail: More
  • Almanacked, their names live; they
    Have slipped their names, and stand at ease,
    Or gallop... More
  • And a man came out of the trees
    And took our horse by the head
    And reaching back to his... More
  • And neigh like Boanerges—
    Then—punctual as a Star
    Stop—docile and omnipotent
    At... More
  • At a tavern hereabouts the hostler greeted our horse as an old acquaintance, though he did not... More
  • Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened. More
  • But, after the war was over, just think what came to pass—
    A letter, sir; and the two were... More
  • Costs less to keep than a horse. Doesn’t get sick. Doesn’t eat when it doesn’t work. More
  • Do memories plague their ears like flies?
    They shake their heads. More
  • For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses,
    roots of pine trees pushed... More
  • Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
    of the stall, smoothing the wood as... More
  • Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English... More
  • Go tie back your hair, said my mother,
    and Why is your mouth all green?
    Rob Roy, he... More
  • Horse, you flame thrower,
    you shark-mouthed man,
    you laughter at the end of... More
  • Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world. More
  • How did you feel feeding doughnuts to a horse? Had a kick out of it, huh? Got a big laugh. Did... More
  • I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned,
    Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree,
    And... More
  • I have no spur
    To prick the sides of my intent, but only
    Vaulting ambition, which... More
  • I hear the Shadowy Horses, their long manes a-shake,
    Their hoofs heavy with tumult, their... More
  • I saw young Harry with his beaver on,
    His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly armed,
    Rise... More
  • I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four
    pasterns.... When I bestride him,... More
  • It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at... More
  • I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. More
  • I’ve spoiled Jemima in more ways than one.
    She’s got so she turns in at every... More
  • Just because we let them smelly fools ride us like horses don’t mean we gotta let them brand us... More
  • Love is a shadow.
    How you lie and cry after it.
    Listen: these are its hooves: it has gone... More
  • Mrs. Finney: Sadie’s right. That track’s crooked.
    Lora May: It isn’t the track, it’s... More
  • My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by,
    With thy proudly-arched and glossy neck,... More
  • out of hardship bred,
    Spirits of power and beauty and delight
    Have ever on such frugal... More
  • putting his hope in certain death, lowering
    his head again to the grass. More
  • The Colonel’s son has taken a horse, and a raw rough dun was he,
    With the mouth of a bell... More
  • The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth. More
  • The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man. More
  • The horses show him nobler powers;
    O patient eyes, courageous hearts! More
  • The story is told of a man who, seeing one of the thoroughbred stables for the first time,... More
  • the white-crested fillies of the surge
    And the white horses of the windy plain. More
  • There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should... More
  • They say princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast... More
  • They use the snaffle and the curb all right;
    But where’s the bloody horse? More
  • They’re two good old friends of mine. I call them Constitution and The Bill of Rights. A most... More
  • We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in... More
  • We would not always be soothing and taming nature, breaking the horse and the ox, but sometimes... More

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