“Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.” MenHeartSawsHorseShortcomingsBreeding Book:The splendid outcast: Beryl Markham's African stories Source: The splendid outcast: Beryl Markham's African stories
“The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.” MenPhilosophyAgeDogLife PhilosophySucceedConcernedCatHorseBreedingElevating Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf
“In the 1970s, I bought some cheap horses, then decided that if I was going to be in it, I was going to go big time. So in 2001, Bill Casner, a partner with me in Excel, and I bought a breeding farm, WinStar Farm, together.” IfsBigsTogetherDecidedHorseBillsPartnersFarmsBreeding Author:Kenny Troutt
“[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!” KnowsTryingHumansPlayFactsScienceGamesPrinciplesGenerationsHorseSpeciesConclusionFollyInfidelitySpontaneousSoberGrossUnnaturalBreedingGeologyRoguesTastingCredulityUnlawfulVarianceProgenyTransmutationPhrenologyHuman FollySinkholes Author:Adam Sedgwick