Gift Horse Quotes

#1. There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.

Sean Astin

#2. I think it's important never to look a gift horse in the mouth, never to overlook your talents [and] what you're good at.

Jim Carrey

#3. Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

J.D. Salinger

#4. Never look a gift horse in the magazine well.

D.A. Roberts

#5. You ever heard that bit about don't look a gift horse in the mouth?"
"I've heard it. Although the Trojans would have fared better with Athens if they had ignored that advice."
I had to look up that reference when I got back to Saul's.

Rysa Walker

#6. When she had asked him how he was able to kill two men with his bare hands, he had gone into asshole mode, telling her not to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Brad Taylor

#7. I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. My career has been given to me by the people I've worked with. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I'm really grateful.

Meryl Streep

#8. Never look a gift horse in the arse.

Megan Tayte

#9. I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. I've had some lovely homemade earrings and, recently, a wall hanging made in the style of Georges Seurat.

Rebecca Stead

#10. 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.

Robert Mankoff

#11. You are not letting me finish." Sedirion bowed his head apologetically. "Dreams are dreams. Money is money. Who cares where they come from. Am I the one to look a gift horse in the mouth?

Daniel Pearlman

#12. The catch about not looking a gift horse in the mouth is that it may be a Trojan horse.

David Seller

#13. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Jerome

#14. On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.

Ilona Andrews

#15. He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

William Penn

#16. Until you really loving, kind, caring, and compassionate, happiness will be an illusion to you.

Debasish Mridha

#17. The horse is a gift to us, to humanity. And for that, there comes responsibility. If the horse is gonna work for you and work with you, then the best thing I can do for the horse is to make it as good a life possible.

Buck Brannaman

#18. Why is some accident of uncontrolled neurochemistry the 'real me,' and a carefully reasoned system of priorities somehow false?

Mishell Baker

#19. When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.

Tom Ford

#20. But maybe there isn't any God.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness ...

Brad Thor

#22. I can't believe George Bush might be president.

Bradley Whitford

#23. I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would be very surprised if it had horseshoe sounds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. My expertise lies in what I've devoted my life to. I wouldn't pretend to be a great gift to any other animal. My interest has always been in the horses.

Buck Brannaman

#25. Sex was like the wooden horse of Troy, he decided. How uncomplicated a gift it seemed at first, but once you had let it through the gate how many unexpected dangers might be found to have stowed themselves away inside.

Anthony McDonald

#26. Be the most enthusiastic person you know.

John C. Maxwell

#27. Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's going." When you do that, you realize that every moment, every breath, every sound, every encounter is a gift. You bloody well better enjoy it.

James Cromwell

#28. Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive.

Roger Caras

#29. Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.

Don Kardong

#30. I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.

Sally Mann

#31. When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way.

Laozi

#32. When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket,
he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

John Fire Lame Deer

#33. For Lacan, language is a gift as dangerous to humanity as the horse was to the Trojans: it offers itself to our use free of charge, but once we accept it, it colonizes us.

Slavoj Zizek