I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams. "
The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.
Tough Olympic news for the Romneys. Ann Romney's horse Rafalka did not advance to the Olympic finals. Apparently it was beat by a smooth-talking socialist horse from Kenya.
Contrary to popular belief, the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur -- it's a huge mutant duck, a top researcher claims. . . . Most mainstream Nessie researchers consider Gluber's duck theory to be horse feathers and are trying to blast it out of the water.
I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. . . I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth. . . This is I, the machine, manoeuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations. . . Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.
Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
I know a little bit about handicapping. If the horse has an IV, you want to stay - away from it.
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it. ' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me. '
The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.
Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.
All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere. --Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.
I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.
There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?
Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces.
Above all, a horse should never be chastised out of foul mood or anger, but always with complete dispassion.
When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.
I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.