Top 52 Quotes About Dead Horse
#1. For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight.
Zack W. Van
#2. If I ever find a dead horse, I am going to beat the fucking shit out of it.
Sam Pink
#3. We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.
Sean Combs
#4. It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.
Owen Hart
#5. I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody Allen
#6. Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
#7. We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.
Bob Dylan
#8. There's no point in beating a dead horse. The horse will still be dead and you'll just be the tired asshole who beat a carcass.
Cheryl McIntyre
#10. Dywen now, he says we need to learn to ride dead horses, like the Others do. He claims it would save on feed. How much could a dead horse eat?
George R R Martin
#11. A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#12. When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll do it.
Charlotte Le Bon
#13. Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
#15. I wasn't different from most girls I knew. Well, except the fact I was exponentially better looking, but why beat a dead horse?
Fisher Amelie
#16. Yeah, this was pretty much one of those moments when she felt like strangling both of them. Did you guys trip over the dead horse? Please, stop beating it.
Cherrie Lynn
#17. The new French theme park based on Napoleon is named Napoleon's Bivouac, and will honor Napoleon with rides, battle reenactments, and the brutal March on Moscow ride. That's a walk-in freezer you stand in for 18 months while you try to eat a dead horse.
Peter Sagal
#18. You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.
Jim Knight
#19. There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.
Aaron Watson
#20. In that rich earth a richer dust concealed.
(I'm flogging a dead horse w/ this one but this is the 1st time I've even seen this quotes feature! I just wanted to post something.)
Rupert Brooke
#21. Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
Arthur Baer
#22. If you beat a dead horse long enough,
you will eventually kill it.
Maximus Freeman
#23. He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that really bothered him. And maybe that clown a little bit.
Vernon D. Burns
#24. Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.
Stephen Ambrose
#25. In the battlefield men grapple each other and die;
The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven,
While ravens and kites peck at human entrails,
Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.
Li Bai
#26. 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
#27. Maximus was cleaning his blade on the dead man's wolfskin. 'You promised him his life,' the Greek said. 'No, I said death was his last worry.' Maximus swung up on to Pale Horse. 'Is that not so for all of us?
Harry Sidebottom
#28. The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead and wrapped in a horse's hide is a happy fate. Am I the sort of people to bring to nought the grand designs of my country?
Zhou Yu
#29. 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
#31. And you're the son of his youngest. He has no other children. Oh, your father's dead, by the way. Fell off a horse two years ago.'
'Good to know.
Scott Lynch
#32. It was one of those country parties where it felt as if no matter where you went you were always being watched by either a live horse or a dead stag, until you found yourself lingering by the washbasin after a piss just to escape this weirdly oppressive ungulate panopticon.
Ned Beauman
#33. A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady's favors, they're silk ribbons tied round the sword.
Maybe the sword's are prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead.
George R R Martin
#34. A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
Prince Philip
#35. If there's anything I dislike it's the violin", she answered. "Why one should want to hear anyone scrape the hairs of a horse's tail against the guts of a dead cat is something I shall never understand.
W. Somerset Maugham
#36. Look not just at the Roman campagna, the pageantry of Venice, and the proud expression of Charles I astride his horse, but also have a look at the bowl on the sideboard, the dead fish in your kitchen, and the crusty bread loaves in the hall.
Alain De Botton
#37. If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.
Edward Abbey
#38. Yer a dead man!" Davy shouts, going in a full circle with the horse jumping and rearing.
"Yer half right," I say.
Patrick Ness
#39. The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.
Ardyth Kennelly
#40. By Pluto sent at the request of Saturn. Arcita's horse in terror danced a pattern And leapt aside and foundered as he leapt, And ere he was aware Arcite was swept Out of the saddle and pitched upon his head Onto the ground, and there he lay for dead; His breast was shattered by the saddle-bow.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#41. The horse is dead," she says and squeezes Soldier's hand. "From here we walk."
"Anyone ever told you you're sort of a creepy kid?" Odd Willie asks.
"All the damn time," Emmie tells him. "I don't bother keeping count anymore.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#42. A dead war horse is the single most expensive corpse you'll ever see.
Christian Cameron
#43. I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.
Tom Hanks
#44. I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed ... !) dead or alive ...
Ward Churchill
#46. If your dreams and goals get derailed, they're not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick 'em up and put 'em back on again.
Dan Pearce
#47. If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.
Stephen King
#48. In Montana, when we did 'Return to Lonesome Dove', we rode on the side of a hill at night in the dark; I was afraid my horse would step on one of the actors playing dead. The director said to leave it to the stunt doubles since they got paid for that.
William Sanderson
#49. The one thing I learned in my youth as a grave robber was that everyone looks the same when they're dead. We're all equal then. So when I meet a chap, sitting on his high horse, I imagine him dead. He's not quite so intimidating then.
Lorraine Heath
#50. WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL
For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended!
REWARD
Shannon Hale
#51. The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.
Michael Crichton
#52. I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
Rudyard Kipling
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