Quotations About / On: HORSE

Whose laughs are hearty, tho' his jests are coarse,
And loves you best of all things—but his horse.

At a tavern hereabouts the hostler greeted our horse as an old acquaintance, though he did not remember the driver.... Every man to his trade. I am not acquainted with a single horse in the world, not even the one that kicked me.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.

We would not always be soothing and taming nature, breaking the horse and the ox, but sometimes ride the horse wild and chase the buffalo.

One key, one solution to the mysteries of the human condition, one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists, the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness. A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse, or plant one foot on the back of one, and the other foot on the back of the other.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

I don't even like old cars ... I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

A little neglect may breed mischief ... for want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.

I wish, said Mr. [Fulke] Greville, men would not pretend to write of what they cannot be masters of. Another country—it is impossible they can be judges; and they ought not to aim at it—for they have different sensations, are used to different laws, manners and things, and consequently are habituated to different thoughts and ideas—'tis the same as if a cow was to write of a horse—or a horse of a cow—why they would proceed on quite different principles, and therefore certainly could be no judge of one another.