HORSE

Related Subjects: Animal, Hunting, Sport

1. A pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.—Bible, Revelation 6:8
   

2. A horse misused upon the road
   Calls to heaven for human blood.—BLAKE, Proverb
   

3. From the horsemen we might all learn something of high respect for adjectives. The true follower of the turf enforces a precision of speech which is not known elsewhere in the country.—HEYWOOD BROUN, Be-Kind-to-Adjectives Week
   

4. One of Lord Palmerston's aphorisms was: "The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse."—WILLIAM FRASER, Disraeli and His Day
   

5. God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses.—CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM
   

6. It makes men imperious to sit a horse.—O. W. HOLMES, Elsie Vernier
   

7. If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you, but he will take a deep interest in your move­ments ever afterwards.—KIPLING, Plain Tales
   

8. A gift horse should not be look't in the mouth.—Proverb
   

9. It is ill to set spurs to a flying horse.—Proverb
   

10. Restive horses must be roughly dealt with.—Proverb
    

11. Up hill spare me, down hill forbear me; plain way, spare me not, nor let me drink when I'm hot.—Proverb
    

12. A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings.—Proverb
    

13. A man may lead his horse to water, but cannot make him drink.—Proverb
    

14. A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way,
    Self-mettle tires him.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
    

15. He doth nothing but talk of his horse.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

16. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

17. Give me another horse! bind up my wounds.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III