A Quote by Horace

The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth. — © Horace
The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

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I've learned not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Why you would want to look any horse the mouth considering how infrequently they brush is beyond me.
Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!
Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.
When a horse falls, foam comes out of its mouth. When it falls, the legs of the horse thrash and the horse is no good... So somebody shoots it. The horse turns into glue. A machine puts the glue into bottles and children squeeze the bottles to get the glue out and stick bits of paper onto cards. Glue gets on the children's hands and the children eat the glue. And the children become the horse.
I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.
I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.
Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth.
I don't mind when my horse is left at the post. I don't mind when my horse comes up to me in the stands and asks, "Which way do I go?" But when the horse I bet on is at the $2 window betting on another horse in the same race...
I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.
A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.
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