Horse Quotes - page 4

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy - what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
You cannot kickstart a dead horse. View quote
Thom Yorke
My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals. View quote
Shirley Jackson
If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day's journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed. View quote
Herodotus
All in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn. View quote
E. E. Cummings
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. View quote
Walter Lippmann
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. View quote
Daniel Boone
619. You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth. View quote
George Herbert
[ A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. ]. (George Herbert)
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this. View quote
Steven Pressfield
The people are the masters of the revolution in each country. It is like putting a cart before the horse that foreigners carry out the revolution for them. The revolution can neither be exported nor imported. View quote
Kim Il-sung
Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain. View quote
Federico García Lorca
Little black horse. Where are you taking your dead rider? View quote
Federico García Lorca
Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye. View quote
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. View quote
Plutarch
Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. View quote
Plutarch
High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse. View quote
Douglas Adams
A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow. (Harry Turtledove)
The horseman serves the horse, The neatherd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'T is the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the "dark horse" in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway. View quote
Jesse Owens