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Image of Ben Jonson
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
- Ben Jonson
Collection: Horse
Image of Samuel Johnson
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Horse
Image of Jean Kerr
It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.
- Jean Kerr
Collection: Horse
Image of Michael Jackson
The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.
- Michael Jackson
Collection: Horse
Image of John F. Kerry
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
- John F. Kerry
Collection: Horse
Image of Robert Hughes
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the church spire across the field) due to parallax. The view from the train was not the view from the horse. It compressed more motifs into the same time. Conversely, it left less time in which to dwell on any one thing.
- Robert Hughes
Collection: Horse
Image of Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Collection: Horse
Image of Harriet Ann Jacobs
Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Collection: Horse
Image of Nikos Kazantzakis
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Collection: Horse
Image of Janet Jackson
I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.
- Janet Jackson
Collection: Horse
Image of Clive James
A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
- Clive James
Collection: Horse
Image of Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man; but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Horse
Image of Jack Kerouac
Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.
- Jack Kerouac
Collection: Horse
Image of Robert Jordan
Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.
- Robert Jordan
Collection: Horse
Image of Robert Jordan
If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.
- Robert Jordan
Collection: Horse
Image of Maureen Johnson
Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and told you all kinds of stats for that horse, how fast it was, how big it was, etc. Whoever had the better horse won both the cards. You repeated this until someone had all the cards. So, basically it was exactly like high school, except it only took three minutes. Which was really a bit more humane, if you thought about it.
- Maureen Johnson
Collection: Horse
Image of Ben Jonson
Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.
- Ben Jonson
Collection: Horse
Image of Victor Hugo
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.
- Victor Hugo
Collection: Horse
Image of Dean Kamen
Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.
- Dean Kamen
Collection: Horse
Image of John F. Kerry
There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.
- John F. Kerry
Collection: Horse
Image of Victor Hugo
We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.
- Victor Hugo
Collection: Horse
Image of Rudyard Kipling
Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.
- Rudyard Kipling
Collection: Horse
Image of Abraham Lincoln
I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Horse
Image of C. S. Lewis
I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Horse
Image of Rudyard Kipling
Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.
- Rudyard Kipling
Collection: Horse
Image of Charles Lindbergh
The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.
- Charles Lindbergh
Collection: Horse
Image of D. H. Lawrence
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!
- D. H. Lawrence
Collection: Horse
Image of C. S. Lewis
Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Horse
Image of Honore de Balzac
When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Horse
Image of Walter Lippmann
I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.
- Walter Lippmann
Collection: Horse
Image of C. S. Lewis
A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Horse
Image of Soren Kierkegaard
In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Collection: Horse
Image of Chris Kyle
One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
- Chris Kyle
Collection: Horse
Image of D. H. Lawrence
The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.
- D. H. Lawrence
Collection: Horse
Image of Milan Kundera
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.
- Milan Kundera
Collection: Horse
Image of C. S. Lewis
No one can teach riding so well as a horse.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Horse
Image of Norman Lear
Bud [Yorkin] broke out big when he did 'The Fred Astaire Show' and won four Emmys. His wife at the time suggested that we team up. We got a lot of press in show business papers, and a number of offers...we eventually signed with Paramount Pictures. But I always like to say, his was the horse that we rode in on. That is my favorite recollection.
- Norman Lear
Collection: Horse
Image of Tanith Lee
World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.
- Tanith Lee
Collection: Horse
Image of John Lennon
Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.
- John Lennon
Collection: Horse
Image of Jack LaLanne
Never, ever get satisfied; keep the carrot in front of the horse.
- Jack LaLanne
Collection: Horse
Image of Walter Lippmann
The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.
- Walter Lippmann
Collection: Horse
Image of Honore de Balzac
In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Horse
Image of Doris Lessing
On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.
- Doris Lessing
Collection: Horse
Image of Abraham Lincoln
I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Horse
Image of Lisa Kleypas
I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.” Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, “If a band of pirates kidnapped me and took me to their ship and threatened to make me walk the plank over a shiver of starving sharks unless I told them your secret, I still wouldn’t tell it. If I were tied by a villain and thrown before a herd of stampeding horses all shod in iron, and the only way to keep from being trampled was to tell the villain your secret, I—
- Lisa Kleypas
Collection: Horse
Image of Heath Ledger
I'm very comfortable with horses. I love horses and I have grown up around farm-hands. There's something very universal about anyone who's on horseback night and day. When you get off that horse, you are still walking as if there's still a horse between your legs.
- Heath Ledger
Collection: Horse
Image of Rush Limbaugh
My father was only born something like 30 years after the Civil War ended, 35 or 40. He was born closer to that than the era in which he died. He was born in 1891, no television, no phones, barely any electricity. He wrote a book to all of us that was really just a compilation of the letters that he had written over the years to my grandmother when they were courting, in the horse and buggy era. Everybody said, "When did you have time to do this?" Relating their own lives to his. He said, "What do you mean, when did I have time? This is all we did." There was no TV, none of that.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Horse
Image of Abraham Lincoln
Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Horse
Image of Abraham Lincoln
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Horse