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  • No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!

  • This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

    'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1
  • We have 11 horses up at our country home, six of which are rescue animals ... Two of them are 'cop horses' from the mounted police, ages 4 and 5, who turned out to have physical problems that weren't suitable for the kind of work they have to do. Now, with us, they are just out to pasture and have nothing but a good time, eating their heads off, romping and frolicking, and just doing all good horsey things.

  • A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.

  • Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

  • If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.

  • The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

    Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.21
  • The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.

    Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr
  • A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.

  • Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

  • As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

    Buffalo Bill (1939). “Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill."”, Ayer Company Pub
  • Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.

  • All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

  • I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

  • I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

  • There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

    "Visit to Two-Finger Typist". LIFE magazine, July 14, 1961.
  • A jade eates as much as a good horse.

    George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.341
  • Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.

    Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.6, Mind Melodies
  • I can be very in my head, but I don't trust my head all that much. My head is crazy. My head will talk to itself all day and all night if I let it. And my heart is less nutty, but it's kind of like an overexcited child. I don't trust my heart all that much either. My body is like a good horse. I trust my body.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse.

  • A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

  • Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

  • A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.

  • There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.

  • I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

  • I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

  • Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

  • Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.

  • Good horses make short miles.

    George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.272
  • Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

    George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”
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