Horse Quotes

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill

Enough, Others, Healthy

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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid

Fast, Catch, Horses

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark Twain

Best, Opinion, Makes

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
Ronald Reagan

Nothing, Said, Often

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Success, Sense, Makes

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost

Life, Art, Care

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx

Dead, Buying, Alimony

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Will Rogers

Opinion, Makes, Difference

Get off your horse and drink your milk.
John Wayne

Off, Drink, Milk

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius

Good, Thinking, After

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Charles V

Women, God, Men

Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!
Groucho Marx

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.
Groucho Marx

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone

Happiness, Good, Wife

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W. C. Fields

Sense, Betting, Keeps

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody Allen

Him, Dead, Call

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Saint Augustine

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Thomas Fuller

Home, Goes, Travelling

A good horse should be seldom spurred.
Thomas Fuller

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.
Samuel Johnson

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Ovid

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
Henny Youngman

Great, Him, Took

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Thomas Fuller

Passion, Him, Away

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
Thomas Fuller

Thinks, Pack, Heaviest

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
Henny Youngman

Kept, Trip, Slow

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life, Nature, Good

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
Pam Brown

Dreams, Beautiful, Strong

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
Tyra Banks

Mom, Waiting, Off

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Stendhal

Great, Men, Woman

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
William Hazlitt

Time, Death, Fight

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