Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

George Eliot

A good horse makes short miles.

Gabourey Sidibe

I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.

Gabriel Heatter

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

George Herbert

A jade eates as much as a good horse.

George Herbert

A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]

George Herbert

Good horses make short miles.

George Herbert

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

George Herbert

Flies are busiest about leane horses.

George Herbert

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

George Herbert

A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.

Alex Solis

He toyed with those horses and did it so easily. He is a very smart horse. You can do anything with him.

He's the most talented horse I've had at this stage in his career.

Eddie Montgomery

He's lucky to be alive. And the horse was not hurt.

He's a horse who could go places - I think he's pretty decent,

Franz Grillparzer

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

Jim Carrey

I think it's important never to look a gift horse in the mouth, never to overlook your talents [and] what you're good at.

Jello Biafra

I think one of the beauties so far of the so-called Spirit of Seattle is there aren't any leaders, pop stars, or guru figures that everyone else is falling in line with and following. No [Nelson] Mandela, Havel, or Subcomandante Ski Mask riding in on a white horse and everybody else just wanting to follow them to the promised land. We're stitching it together and doing it ourselves.

Jeannette Walls

I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

Jeannette Walls

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

Jeannette Walls

You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

Jeremy Irvine

My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was actually working in theater at the time. I had a small role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is a huge prestigious theater company back in England. I honestly thought that was as good as it got.

Jeremy Irvine

If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.

Jeff Cooper

Offering democracy to an Arab is like bringing a horse to a steakhouse.

Jeff Bezos

People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.

Jeff Bridges

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

George S. Patton

For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

Jeffrey Bernard

I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.

Jeffrey Bernard

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

Jeff Miller

I was in a very deep state of shock after that. I had raised my horse since he was six months old and he was more like a child to me, so I took it very hard. They never caught who did it and the stable did a great job of covering facts up so it couldn't be proved that it was the direct result of the article, but the coincidence was striking.

Jean Racine

He who has far to ride spares his horse.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.