Top 100 Good Horse Quotes
#1. For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching roles from what we usually play, is pretty awesome. That generally doesn't happen, but TNT is a horse of a different color.
Neal McDonough
#2. 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.
Fanny Kemble
#3. Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.
Winston Churchill
#5. Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.
Dalai Lama
#6. We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius
#8. I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.
Jack Klugman
#9. 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
#10. Well, the thing is, I actually have a fear of horses, so I wouldnt make a very good cowboy.
Johnny Christ
#12. 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?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
William Faulkner
#14. Without good horses, you are nothing. In polo, it's 70 per cent horse, 30 per cent rider. And I have the best horses.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#15. It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Stephen Leacock
#16. You ride horse of good intent," Naomi said. "It does not arrive at destination.
Jane Kirkpatrick
#18. Brendan O'Meara's Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales of the track in particular. Horses may win races, but they also win hearts as this impressive book proves beyond doubt. A memorable, sure-footed debut.
Madeleine Blais
#19. Boy, you're like a horse.
Just now sated with seed,
You've come back to my stable,
Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow,
An icy spring, shady groves.
Theognis Of Megara
#20. Good armor and a good horse means a good ransom if I unseat him.
George R R Martin
#21. As the life of the horse is in his legs, so the life of the traveler is in his feet, and good care should be taken of them.
Juliette De Bairacli Levy
#22. For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.
Max Muller
#23. In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the exploration of space. The time was long past when one nation could seem more glorious than another by hurling some heavy object into nothingness.
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. Kind of where you end up your ride on a horse is so important. It's a little bit like when you guys were younger & you were dating, that last two minutes of the date can be a real deal breaker. With these horses it's the same thing you know? You got to quit on a good note.
Buck Brannaman
#25. Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.
Mercedes Lackey
#27. She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
Tom Petty
#28. Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and a bad girl to have fun with and anybody can have their own Europe ... What do we care about missing the tour?
Margaret Mitchell
#30. Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.
Ernest Hemingway,
#31. subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a line in an old folk song that runs: 'I called my donkey a horse gone wonky.' Throughout most of the
Elaine Morgan
#32. For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.
George Allen
#33. You're back," she said.
"I'm leaving again."
"To steal more grain from a captured country estate?"
His smile was perfectly mischievous. "Rebels must eat."
"And I suppose you use my horse in these battles and thefts of yours."
"He's happy to support a good cause.
Marie Rutkoski
#34. I enjoy horse riding, spending time with my dog 'Smurf,' and basically having a really good laugh partying and having fun!
Katie Price
#35. I like getting on my high horse. I look good on it. Like a knight ...
Dan Miller
#36. There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse.
Muriel Wace
#37. 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.
Robert Duvall
#38. Did you see the picture of Roy Rogers's horse attending a church service in Pasadena? I forgot whether his name was Tex or Trigger but he was dressed fit to kill and looked like he was having a good time. He doubled the usual attendance.
Flannery O'Connor
#39. I wish we had horses to ride," Maria said. "In my happiness I would like to be on a good horse and ride fast with thee riding fast beside me and we would ride faster and faster, galloping, and never pass my happiness.
Ernest Hemingway,
#40. He could barely stand, the Captain, but he kept on going. Shukhov had an old horse like that at home once. He took good care of that old horse, but he worked himself to death. And then they skinned the hide off him.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#41. When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again.
Jimmy Buffett
#42. I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#44. What I have realized through practicing is that practice isn't about beng the best horse or the good horse or the poor horse or the worst horse.
Pema Chodron
#45. For what good does it do us to guide a horse and control his speed with the curb, and then find that our own passions, utterly uncurbed, bolt with us? Or to beat many opponents in wrestling or boxing, and then to find that we ourselves are beaten by anger?
Seneca.
#46. You know you really have to beware of gypsies in these parts," he said teasingly, dismounting from his horse ... Keirah gave him a small smile that she didn't quite feel. "Good thing I have the Gwarda here to protect me," she teased back.
Madison Thorne Grey
#47. Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#48. I'm attracted to ensembles: you get a lot of really good moving pieces. It's sort of like a horse race in a way, especially when you know that everyone is on this collision course. It's like, 'Who's going to make it?' And you can put people together in unexpected pairings.
Noah Hawley
#49. Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.
George Herbert
#51. I'd rather tell you about a new horse, a forest of glass, and a long good night.
Laura Ruby
#52. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him - but he was a good and faithful horse.
-Frank
From "Eulogy for a Percheron" in "The Horse Lawyer and Other Poems
Greg Seeley
#53. Death knew that to tinker with the fate of one individual could destroy the whole world. He knew this. The knowledge was built into him.
To Bill Door, he realised, it was so much horse elbows.
Terry Pratchett
#54. A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.
Gautama Buddha
#55. You're trying to figure out a way to meet a horse to where he can understand. And to me, it's not to train a horse, it's to try to get the horse with you where it's one mind and one body. You may spend your whole life chasing that, but it's a good thing to chase.
Buck Brannaman
#57. Good man. Never turn down a man's beer, even if it tastes like cold horse piss.
D.A. Graystone
#58. Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.
Robertson Davies
#59. You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country - until next election.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#60. I would rather have a good friend than the best cock or quail in the world: I would even go further, and say the best horse or dog.
Plato
#62. An old adage says that a good rider can hear his horse speak and a great rider can hear his horse whisper.
Elizabeth Letts
#63. A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.
Monty Roberts
#64. The theatre demanded of its members stamina, good digestion, the ability to adjust, and a strong sense of humor. There was no discomfort an actor didn't learn to endure. To survive, we had to be horses and we were.
Helen Hayes
#65. Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.
John Tyler
#66. I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.
Martina Hingis
#67. Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson.
Anna Sewell
#69. Peleus lived to a good age and survived his famous son Achilles, an initiate of the Centaur Horse fraternity, who was killed at the siege of Troy.
Robert Graves
#70. Giddon was younger even than Raffin, strong, and a good rider.
Kristin Cashore
#71. You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
Black Elk
#72. A woman who dreams of a good home with a man who holds for her only a poor love is putting a $50 saddle on a $20 horse. She'd be far better off single than riding with him.
Nancy E. Turner
#73. In Britain I focus on my horse riding. I ride everyday no matter what. I have a wonderful trainer called Joe Meyer. He is from New Zealand and competed in the World Games this year. I have been with him for four years and we have a good rapport.
Liz Halliday
#74. Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.
Randy Alcorn
#75. It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.
John Lyly
#76. Dancer nudged him in the shoulder. "I know, fella. She got me good. And it's my own fault." His horse poked him in the jaw in agreement.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#77. 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.
Lester Piggott
#78. It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.
Dick Van Patten
#79. Treat your body good, because your body is your boat, it is your horse, it is your car, your wings, your every possible vehicle to take you to every possible place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#81. I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.
Preston Sturges
#82. I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made
unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.
Edward Abbey
#83. The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way.
Wesley Willis
#84. You can have the most amazing horse in the world and not be able to ride it, so it has to be a good match for sure.
Jessica Springsteen
#85. They have increased readership, which is good, but I personally am not very turned on by e-books. The physical book has always meant something to me. I'm like the horse who goes back to the stall. I'm not that adventurous.
Robert Loomis
#86. There's good things about wearing armour. One is that if your horse bounces you through deep brush, all that happens is that you get pine-needles in your visor.
Christian Cameron
#87. A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.
William Shatner
#88. The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.
Will Rogers
#90. That woman's horse is crazy!" Sanders barked. He shook his head. "The thing is a menace. If it hadn't tried to take out the enemy on its own, or had damn good blood lines running through it, I'd say let's eat it.
K.F. Breene
#91. My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.
Jack Horner
#92. What are you like inside? Don't you have feelings where you love everyone, and at the same time you hate everyone? Or - don't you have times when everything goes the way you want, but nothing feels good or right? That's what I mean," he'd say, "about my black horse and my white horse.
Frank Delaney
#93. A human can be a real prick but maintain the capacity for good and a good hearted soul is capable of great evil. Never judge a person as absolutely one way or another because you sell the human race short when you do.
Jim McGarrah
#94. The horse is a great equalizer, he doesn't care how good looking you are, or how rich you are or how powerful you are
he takes you for how you make him feel.
Buck Brannaman
#95. Life is short, nature is hostile, and man is ridiculous; but oddly enough most misfortunes have their compensations, and with a certain humour and a good deal of horse-sense one can make a fairly good job of what is after all a matter of very small consequence.
W. Somerset Maugham
#96. All that existed was precious in Crazy Horse's religion - whatever a man did or thought was good, was wakan, so long as he obeyed his own inner voice, for that too was wakan.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#97. If there is one good thing about an angry mob, it's that they are so focused on being angry and mobbish that they sometimes miss little things. Things like a horse-drawn cart being driven by the very person who has made them so angry and mobbish in the first place.
Cuthbert Soup
#98. The mortality rate among sea horses is not to be believed. Because the difference between a dead sea horse and a living sea horse is imperceptible, selling dead sea horses would make a very good pet store scam.
Sloane Crosley
#99. When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
Facundo Pieres
#100. I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose
of some horse that looked good to me.
Al Capone
