Best 1965 quotes in «horse quotes» category

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.

A corner of his mouth quirked up. “I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about?” “Hockey? Polo?” “Simultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates.

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

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.

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

A few minutes later, she was once again riding her own horse. Deciding to take the lead, she nudged the mare into a trot, and as she passed Brodick and Ramsey, she called out, "You used trickery." "Yes, I did," he admitted. "Are you angry with me?" She laughed again. "I don't get angry. I get even." Unbeknownst to her, she had just recited the Buchanan creed.

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!

African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

A friend of mine had this idea a few years ago. We thought it would be a great way to promote the sport and to put polo in front of a lot more people in an unexpected place: the romance novel. There's a lot of people that care about those kinds of stories, especially women, and it would help people to know what the polo life is all about. It's not just what you see in the newspapers or on Pretty Woman. There's a lot more to it: the time spent in the barn, how much we love the horses, the relationship with the horses and with the family, etc.

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some species of tortoises not until 150 years.

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of 'The Magnificent Seven' and ended up on a horse that pitched me off and broke my leg again... I rode horses pretty well. I just didn't like doing it.

After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

After winning Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes on Brown Jack- If you'd been on your honeymoon, you couldn't have had a happier time.

After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.

A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.

A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.

A good horse is a man's best friend in time of danger.

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.

A good horse is the best company in the world.

A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.

A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness.

A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.

A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! - In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, To throw that faint thin fine upon the shore!

Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses.

A jade eates as much as a good horse.