Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.

Walter Scott

Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

Winston Churchill

I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.

Winston Churchill

I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

Winston Churchill

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

Winston Churchill

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

Winston Churchill

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.

Winston Churchill

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

Rick Riordan

God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!

Veronica Roth

Four sits down on the edge of the carousel, leaning against a plastic horse's foot. His eyes lift to the sky, where there are no stars, only a round moon peking through a thin layer of clouds. The muscles in his arms are relaxed; his hand rests on the back of his neck. He looks almost comfortable, holding that gun to his shoulder. I close my eyes briefly. Why does he distract me so easily? I need to focus.

Rebecca Solnit

[On the] question of why we might want to look at images even more than the real thing: I think there is some quality when you look at an image of, not only seeing this thing, whether it's the horse or the sky, but you are seeing somebody point at it and say, Look!

Rudyard Kipling

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

Rudyard Kipling

Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.

Rudyard Kipling

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

Samuel Johnson

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Samuel Johnson

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Sadie Jones

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

Robert Jordan

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

Robert Jordan

A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.

Robert Jordan

Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.

William Devane

I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

Wendell Berry

And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could see that I lived in the created world, and it was still being created. I would be part of it forever. There was no escape. The Spirit that made it was in it, shaping it and reshaping it, sometimes lying at rest, sometimes standing up and shaking itself, like a muddy horse, and letting the pieces fly.

Wendell Phillips

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

Willie Nelson

You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steel his horse.

Willie Nelson

Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The regulations needed to change their status to "food animals" would cripple every aspect of the horse industry as we know it. Plus, it would be wrong.

Willie Nelson

Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.

Willie Nelson

I'm a little prejudiced when it comes to horses. I have always loved them.

Willie Nelson

Horses were a way to travel to get to where we are today, and it is our job to protect them.

William Makepeace Thackeray

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

Zebulon Pike

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

Parts of the roofs were peeled back like sardine cans. Fortunately, those sections were not over occupied stalls. And, fortunately, no one was in the horse trailer when it was squashed.

Michael Mann

I own a horse and ride, but I don't know racing or betting.

Chris LeDoux

I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.