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“Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'”

World Should Firsts Country Today Winning Bits Animal Race Five Four Feet Lucky Equal Thirds Horse Shoes Ran Ducks Fifth Horseshoes

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms. Have you any idea of what a man must endure who leads such a life? No, you cannot. No one can unless he lives it for himself.”

“For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.”

Long Stills Feet Horse Luck Bones Pockets Long Ago Worn Rabbits Fur Polished Claws Chestnuts

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.”

Wanted Strong Feet Six Decided Horse Monsters Farms Bicycle

Author:Laurie Lee

“Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.”

Men War Use Used History Tree Feet Modern Movement Fields Essence Horse Strategy Faster Civil War Tied American Civil War Horsemen Infantry

Book:American Heritage History of the Civil War

Source: American Heritage History of the Civil War

“That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.”

Fall Evil Pleasure Feet Horse Stuck Graves Posts Meals Sickness Going Away Spurs Horseback Oxen

Author:Joseph Hall

“I often tell people that I truly want the horse to be my feet and legs. I want to be an extension of the horse and him to be an extension of me. That's what I'm always working toward when I'm on a horse.”

People Want Feet Horse Legs Extensions Always Working

Author:Buck Brannaman

“The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though it was only the middle of May, and Mr. Jeremiah Cobb was favoring the horses as much as possible, yet never losing sight of the fact that he carried the mail. The hills were many, and the reins lay loosely in his hands as he lolled back in his seat and extended one foot and leg luxuriously over the dashboard. His brimmed hat of worn felt was well pulled over his eyes, and revolved a quid of tobacco in his left cheek.”

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“In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.”

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Book:The Atheist's Mass

Source: The Atheist's Mass

“We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share of heels, not for his fine collar; a hawk for her wing, not for her jesses and bells. Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own? He has a great train, a beautiful palace, so much credit, so many thousand pounds a year, and all these are about him, but not in him.”

Men Years Beautiful Values Rich Feet Share Fine Thousand Horse Wings Train Appreciation Credit Pounds Bells Heels Palaces Collars Hawks Greyhounds

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod, A thousand horses - the wild - the free - Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.”

Pain Bits Sea Feet Thousand Mouths Horse Wave Wide Flying Iron Tails Spurs Reins Wild Horses Inspirational Horse

Author:Lord Byron

“As the life of the horse is in his legs, so the life of the traveler is in his feet, and good care should be taken of them.”

Should Care Taken Feet Horse Legs Traveler

Author:Juliette de Bairacli Levy

“American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be going along and he'd stick his foot in a ground hog hole and break his leg. So we were trying to prevent that, too. But we finally scared ourselves. We didn't realize we were nuts.”

Trying Would Be Realizing Break Feet Fields Gun Horse Sticks Scared Legs Holes Streams Nuts Ads Hog

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.”

Mother Waiting White Feet Taught Mom Horse My Mom White Horse

Author:Tyra Banks

“I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.”

Bigs Wanted Fantasy Growing Up Records Fire Growing Player Feet Return Mountain Picks Horse Towns Provision Daydreaming Cabins Childhood Dreams Log Cabins Record Players

Author:Linda McCartney