Horses Quotes

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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid

Horse, Fast, Catch

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham Lincoln

Money, Cost, Generals

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
Elizabeth Taylor

Men, Best, Dogs

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo

Mind, Long, Congress

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams

Working, Wish, Old

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake

Wiser, Wrath, Tigers

The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin

Care, Nation, Public

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
Henny Youngman

Great, Him, Horse

We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
Chief Joseph

Great, Guns, Return

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
Alice Walker

Beautiful, Landscape

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.
Ellen DeGeneres

Home, Sleep, Two

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.
Chief Joseph

Lost, Made, Find

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
Mason Cooley

Others, Run, General

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.
Simone Weil

Hurt, Thought, Lose

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn

Men, Children, Dogs

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.
Steven Spielberg

Live, Worry, Property

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
Clara Schumann

Happy, Diamonds, Possessing

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

Opinion, Public, Hold

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
William Shatner

Love, Great, Ocean

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
William Shatner

Life, Wife, Everything

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.
Black Elk

Again, Once, Number

Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.
Jeff Bridges

Life, Around, Yeah

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
Douglas Horton

Wishes, Ride, Throwing

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
Rachel Weisz

Care, Between, Empathy

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.
Tom Hiddleston

Done, Why, Sure

When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.
Susan Orlean

Future, Before, Everyone

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
Bram Stoker

Black, Light, Broken

There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.
Kelly Clarkson

Life, Work, Peace

Competitions are for horses, not artists.
Bela Bartok

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