Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Lippmann

I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.

Walter Lippmann

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

William Ralph Inge

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

William Butler Yeats

There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind....

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.

William Butler Yeats

Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable tide.

Walter Scott

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.

Walter Scott

Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.

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

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

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

Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.

Winston Churchill

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.

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

A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.

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!

Robert Graves

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

Robert Graves

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

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.

Samuel Johnson

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.

Sadie Jones

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

Sadie Jones

Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.