Horses proverbs

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◆ It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

- Maggie Stiefvater99

◆ Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.

- Rick Riordan99

◆ The last time somebody pointed out that cowboys ride horses, not tricycles, I shot him. Of course, I waited until another gunslinger gunned him down, but nevertheless, I still shot him.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

- Karen Kingsbury99

◆ In riding a horse, we borrow freedom

- Helen Thompson99

◆ Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

- W.C. Fields99

◆ There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse's hooves: If one of the horse's hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means that the sculptor was very, very clever. Five legs in the air means that there's probably at least one other horse standing behind the horse you're looking at; and the rider lying on the ground with his horse lying on top of him with all four legs in the air means that the rider was either a very incompetent horseman or owned a very bad-tempered horse.

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ We rode the merry-go-round like a couple of lovers. We weren't though; we were just two horse enthusiasts from two different worlds (I think she was from Mars).

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

- Alice Walker99

◆ If not for the horses, Piper would've died.

- Rick Riordan99

◆ When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ By midmorning eight of the horses stood tied and the other eight were wilder than deer, scattering along the fence and bunching and running in a rising sea of dust as the day warmed, coming to reckon slowly with the remorselessness of this rendering of their fluid and collective selves into that condition of separate and helpless paralysis which seemed to be among them like a creeping plague.

- Cormac McCarthy98

◆ When gangs took over the [abandoned public land in Philadelphia] and the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, horses became a way of saving lives. By getting boys interested in raising a horse rather than killing another human being, these cowboys gave the youth something positive: father figures, focus, and the ability to stand tall.

- G. Neri98

◆ A generous spirit finds friends everywhere.

- Bella Sara98

◆ Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse.

- Dorothy L. Sayers98