Top 17 Quotes About Stirrups
#1. Seated on his horse, resting in his stirrups and leaning on the end of his lance, filled with sad and troubled forebodings;
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#2. I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.
John Stamos
#4. Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.
Michael Morpurgo
#5. Good Heaven! That is enough to drive away all my pains; I could mount him with thirty balls in my body. On my soul, handsome stirrups!
Alexandre Dumas
#6. High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
Patricia Marx
#8. Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine? No. We are not wrong. We did not seek election and win in order to manage the decline of a great nation.
Margaret Thatcher
#9. The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.
Delia Smith
#10. Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.
William Camden
#11. In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.
Robertson Davies
#12. Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.
Gregory David Roberts
#13. Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#14. He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.
Mark Shields
