horses quotes

Now the great winds shorewards blow; Now the salt tides seawards flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

- Matthew Arnold
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'The Forsaken Merman', l.4^7.

If you open that Pandora's box, you never know what Trojan 'orses will appear.

- Ernest Bevin
  Expressing doubts about the value of the newly formed Council of Europe. Recalled by his secretary Sir Roderick Barclay in Michael Charlton The Price of Victory (1983).

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Jeremiah 5:8.

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

-William Blake
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'Proverbs of Hell'.

A cavalry commander†said he had just been given a thousand new men who had never seen a horse and a thousand horses who had never seen a man.

- David McClure Brinkley
  On World War II. Washington Goes to War.

Such a fatigue of adjectives, a drone of alliterations, a huffing of hyphenated words hurdling the meter like tired horses. Such a faded upholstery of tears, stars, bells, bones, flood and blood†a thud of consonants in tongue, night, dark, dust, seed, wound and wind.

- Anatole Broyard
  On Dylan Thomas's poetry.  Aroused by Books.

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.

- Mrs Patrick ne  e Beatrice Rose StellaTanner Campbell
Quoted in Daphne Fielding The Duchess of  Jermyn Street (1964), ch.2. Sometimes attributed to Edward VII.

Bring on the empty horses!

- Michael originally Mihaly Kertesz Curtiz
  Instructions during the filming of  The Charge of the Light Brigade, subsequently used by David Niven for the title of one of his books. Curtiz's less-than-perfect English was renowned for producing such felicitous phrases.

'Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to melodging, wife, and children reading, writing and 'rithmeticsnuff, tobacker, and sleep.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^50  Man on the Canterbury coach. David Copperfield, ch.19.

If there is a heaven it's no doubt already filledwith horses, chickens, lambs, and other poor creatures. People will simply not get in.

- Louis Dudek
Collected in Notebooks1960^1994 (1994).

They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
  Of Englishmen. English Traits,'Manners'.

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

-50 Cent originally  CurtisJackson
  Rodwell. The Wars, pt.2, section 8.

England istheparadise of women, thepurgatoryof men, and the hell of horses.

-John Florio
Second Frutes, ch.12.

The labor of women inthehouse, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way [they] are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

-Gilman and Charlotte Perkins Stetson
  Women and Economics:  A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, ch.1.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

- George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax
c.1687  Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Of Punishment'.

Home James, and Don't Spare the Horses.

- Fred Hillebrand
   Title of song.

Oats. A grain, which in England isgenerally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language.

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War. Kipling And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Ballad of the King's  Jest'. 1895  The Second Jungle Book,'The Law of the  Jungle'.

What the horses o' Kansas think to-day, the horses of America will think tomorrow; an' Itell you that when the horses of America rise in their might, the day o'the Oppressor is ended. 472

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  The Day's Work,'A  Walking Delegate'.

All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus.

-James Maxton
  On the Scottish Independent Labour Party's proposed disaffiliation from the Labour Party. In the Daily Herald,12  Jan.

Barely a twelvemonth after The seven days war that put the world to sleep, Late in the evening the strange horses came.

- Edwin Muir
  One Foot in Eden,'The Horses'.

Come fill up my cup, come fill up my cann, Come saddle my horses, and call up my man; Come open your gates, and let me gae free, I daurna stay langer in Bonny Dundee!

- Sir Walter Scott
  Rob Roy, ch.23.

Nothing like blood, sir, in hosses, dawgs, and men.

-William Makepeace Thackeray
^8  James Crawley.Vanity Fair, ch.35.

It is the necessary nature of a political in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change† The best carriage horses are those which can most steadily hold back against the coach as it trundles down the hill.

- Anthony Trollope
  Phineas Redux, ch.4.