Robert Smith Surtees Quotes

#1. I fooled around and fell in love.

Elvin Bishop

#2. Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Robert Smith Surtees

#3. The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.

Robert Smith Surtees

#4. Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Yvon Chouinard

#5. More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Robert Smith Surtees

#6. It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

Robert Smith Surtees

#7. Work and wine, maintaining sanity for unhappily married women everywhere.

Claire Contreras

#8. Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

Robert Smith Surtees

#9. The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

Robert Smith Surtees

#10. There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Robert Smith Surtees

#11. Better be killed than frightened to death.

Robert Smith Surtees

#12. There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.

Al Madrigal

#13. No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

Robert Smith Surtees

#14. No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.

Robert Smith Surtees

#15. The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

Robert Smith Surtees

#16. There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse

Robert Smith Surtees

#17. The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Robert Smith Surtees

#18. Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

Robert Smith Surtees

#19. It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

Robert Smith Surtees

#20. Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance;
whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball
is to look out for a wife,
to look after a wife,
or to look after someone else's wife ...

Robert Smith Surtees

#21. I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

Jesse Jackson

#22. I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

Frank Oz

#23. Arithmetic has began to totter.

Gottlob Frege

#24. I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

Ted Ligety

#25. We are the change we have been waiting for.

Barack Obama

#26. Quickly, and working together, they

Kit Tunstall