Famous Quotes & Sayings

Primo Levi

Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it's supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There's nothing sadder.Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.

Prince Philip

Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.

Prince Philip

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.

Plutarch

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

Plutarch

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

Plutarch

Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

Minka Kelly

I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.

Paula Poundstone

I know a little bit about handicapping. If the horse has an IV, you want to stay - away from it.

Terry Pratchett

A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.

Terry Pratchett

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.

Temple Grandin

For example, if ears are back on a horse, it's obviously not very happy. And the eyes show that it's not happy. Now, if the eyes are nice and soft and brown, then it's calm. You can see these things in horses and cattle, and I think that some of these people are just really good at picking up these signals, but they don't realize it.

Randeep Hooda

You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.

Randeep Hooda

A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.

Randeep Hooda

I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.

Randeep Hooda

Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.

Randeep Hooda

In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

Sharni Vinson

I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.

Leonard Peltier

Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out and resonate in every word and deed. Yes,become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.

Len Goodman

I try to keep myself in the best of company and my horses in the worst of company.

Laura Schlessinger

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.

Laura Schlessinger

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.

Marcus Aurelius

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

Marcus Aurelius

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else...

Marcus Aurelius

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world

Sheryl Sandberg

I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

Tanya Tucker

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.