Top 1200 Horse And Carriage Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them

Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.

I was born an ugly duckling due to my mother's ill health. She wasn't supposed to be pregnant, there were all kinds of complications, she couldn't survive a cesarean section etc. She said, "They didn't hand me a child, they handed me a purple melon." I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.

Winter horseshoes are equipped with little spikes that give a horse traction on snow and ice and prevent it from slipping.

No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.

The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.

It's difficult, because when you're a popular singer who makes money, you're basically a race horse. And that's how you're treated by the people around you.

We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.

Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in.

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine during long train journeys, as we secretly contemplate a beautiful person who is gazing out of the window – a perfect love story interrupted only when the beloved looks back into the carriage and starts up a dull conversation about the excessive price of the on-board sandwiches with a neighbour or blows her nose aggressively into a handkerchief.

Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

In the calmness of the walk, horse and rider can find the time to think and to prepare the quality of the following trot and canter.

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!

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

Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.

You must somehow understand that we as horsemen can do very little to teach the horse. What we can do is to create an environment in which he can learn.

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

Simply put; I'm trying to see what I can get done with the horse without him being troubled about doing it.

The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

I've fallen in love with my horse. It's a safer bet. We all know from my illustrious past that I should be sticking to men with four legs.

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Things come and go - there's win, losses, and injuries, but you get back on the horse - but I appreciate what I've done more.

I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse.

I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

It's an incredible feeling for an owner or trainer to know they've got a superior race horse on their hands. You can tell when you have a really good one.

There's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it.

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

Wrigley Field was built and designed at a time when people got to the ballpark by trolley, train, and horse cart.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

Every rein aid must be preceded by an action of the torso. Otherwise you only address the horse's head.

Back in the '60s, there was a car sticker that read, 'Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,' but I ate like a horse.

I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.

Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.

You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up.