Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Horse Quotes, Animal Quotes

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Horse Quotes , Passion Quotes

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Running Quotes , Horse Quotes

As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.

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Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans.

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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Horse Quotes , Blow Quotes

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Horse Quotes , Power Quotes

People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to themwho have the organ of hope preposterously developedwho are endowed with an uncongealable sanguine temperamentwho never feel concerned about the price of cornand who cannot, by any possibility, discover any but the bright side of a pictureare very apt to go to extremes, and exaggerate with 40-horse microscopic power.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Horse Quotes , People Quotes

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Horse Quotes , Men Quotes

The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Horse Quotes , Car Quotes

If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.

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Tags : Al-Mutanabbi Quotes , Horse Quotes , True Beauty Quotes

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Dog Quotes , Horse Quotes

A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Dog Quotes , Horse Quotes

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Horse Quotes , War Quotes

Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Horse Quotes , Lying Quotes

I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Horse Quotes , Believe Quotes

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Horse Quotes , Fear Quotes

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Horse Quotes , Silly Quotes

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

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Horse Quotes , Equestrian Quotes

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Horse Quotes , Inspiration Quotes

Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Horse Quotes , Mouths Quotes