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Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.
Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses.
When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.
I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.
I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard.
A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.
My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.
It's the fight game, and everyone loses. You win some, you lose some. You just try to get back up on the horse.
The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.
He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.
We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
I've never been a show horse or particularly charismatic. I'm just the guy who gets up and works hard every day.
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.
I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine's like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait - it moves very fast.
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
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.
What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.
A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.
If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
Wrigley Field was built and designed at a time when people got to the ballpark by trolley, train, and horse cart.
I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay.
I lost a horse today.' 'That sounds careless. What happened?' 'She jumped off a cliff.' 'A cliff! Is that normal?
Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them
I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.
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!
Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.
I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.
Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.
I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.
When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.
Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.
Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.
For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
In the partnership between ourselves and the horse there must be one ruling spirit, and that one must be the rider.
When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.
Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.