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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet
Of Mice and Men
Frankenstein

Horse Quotes

My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.

– William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 3. When Maria says she is going to copy her mistress Olivia’s handwriting and write Malvolio love letters, a delighted Sir Toby says he will think his niece is in love with him. Maria responds with this line.

I say this because I had a very bad gypsy attack…they stole my wife, plow…and they touch my horse in a very bad way…he got very depressed.

– Sacha Baron Cohen

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

– Gordon Taylor

A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.

– Grover Norquist

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

– Henny Youngman

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

– Gabriel Heatter

The Giraffe took the horse’s head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train.

– Henry Lawson

You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry’s favorite horse was named Champion. He ain’t ever had one called Runner Up.

– Gene Mauch

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

– Gary Cooper

Artists are never wrong when they paint revolution with the beautiful dress and with the sword. On the horse or by foot. Because revolution is a woman.

– Hugo Chavez

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

– Gough Whitlam

What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?

– George Segal

I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don’t mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

– Gary Cooper

President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.

– Harold Hamm

Don’t use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don’t worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.

– Henry Cloud

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

– Harvey Cox

When a man’s mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

– John Webster

During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.

– Julie Benz

When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it. There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.

– John Burroughs

I really like ‘Roar’ and ‘Dark Horse.’ ‘Dark Horse’ I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry’s amazing!

– Iggy Azalea

What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

– Ian McShane

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

– Jackie Kennedy

You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There’s fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box.

– Isla Fisher

Markets work best when there’s lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they’re bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.

– James Surowiecki

I’d like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I’d like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

– James McBride

I learned why ‘out riding alone’ is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

– Jane Smiley

Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.

– Jane Velez-Mitchell

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

– John Wayne

The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.

– Joel Edgerton

I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it’s very easy to digest.

– Ilya Ilyin

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