Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.