Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Lewis

To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.

William Shakespeare

An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.

William Shakespeare

You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!

Buffalo Bill

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

Cary Grant

You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.

We're still saying this is a horse race,

Benjamin Franklin

He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.

Benjamin Franklin

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

Benjamin Franklin

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

Benjamin Franklin

Never praise your cider or your horse

Aime Cesaire

I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

William Shakespeare

He doth nothing but talk of his horses.

William Shakespeare

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

William Shakespeare

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

The stable wears out a horse more than the road

Jerry Bailey

I've always thought that one horse wouldn't make up my mind one way or the other,

Avi Arad

The scripts that are ready will go first. It's kind of a horse race. We will make the movies by the quality of the script and which is ready to go first.

I've waited a lifetime for a horse like this. I'm going to let him take me to places that I've never been.

Victor Espinoza

It was a perfect trip. He just stalked the leader and kept running at the end. My horse is really nice to ride and he knows what's going on. So I don't have to do too much.

I've been riding for 25 years, and I've never been involved with a horse who's won this many in a row. She's just unbelievable.

I've never had a horse work that good. This is probably the most talented horse I've ever had.

J. Taylor

This is the best-looking horse this mare has ever had. He's balanced; he's got it all.

John Marshall

That track will be able to accommodate the horsemen. There are training needs and more horseman needs than we can provide at times. So that will be available.

Brandon Sanderson

Vin snorted, kneeling in the low tent as she pulled her belt tight; then she crawled over to him. "I don't know how you read while riding," she said. "Oh, it's quite easy - if you aren't afraid of horses." "I'm not afraid of them," Vin said. "They just don't like me. They know I can outrun them, and that makes them surly.

Arthur Conan Doyle

What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

Art Buchwald

Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.

Aziz Ansari

When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.

Jane Hirshfield

I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves.

Jane Hirshfield

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

Jane Hirshfield

As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.

Jamie Foxx

I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.

Benjamin Disraeli

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Carl Sandburg

History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.