Horse Quotes

The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.

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.

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches.

The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.