Bridled Quotes
More Bridled Quotes
He remembers impulses bridled, the joy he sacrificed. Every chance he lost now mocks his senseless caution.
constantine p. cavafy— An Old Man (Collected Poems (1992))
Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities.
john muir— "Wild Wool", Overland Monthly, volume 14, number 4 (April 1875) pages 361-366 (at page 364); reprinted in Steep Trails (1918), chapter 1
He never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
— Richard Rumbold, at his execution (1685). See Macaulay—History of England, Chapter V.
