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“He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.”

Thinking Ready Horse Packs Posterity Loaded

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.”

Thinking Horse Packs

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.”

Gone Doors Horse Wheels Afternoon Leisure Packs Spinning Sunny Bargains Wagons Peddler Sunny Afternoon

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells.”

Leader Horse Slave Customs Bells Packs Crooked Constancy Dell

Book:Poetical Works: With Notes and a Memoir

Source: Poetical Works: With Notes and a Memoir

“But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies To assist the spirit who truly tries. But it isn't a shibboleth, creed, nor code, It isn't a pack-horse to carry your load, It isn't a wagon, it's only a road. And perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal, but the exercise!”

Trying Spirit Goal Prayer Path Sky Exercise Mountain Horse Rewards Code Creeds Load Packs Wagons

Author:Edmund Vance Cooke

“The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]”

Position Horse Envy Lazy Packs Dissatisfied Gaudy

Author:Horace

“You know the little camel on the pack of cigarettes? They just found out that's not even a camel. It's actually a horse with a big, old tumor growing out of its mouth.”

Knows Littles Bigs Found Growing Mouths Horse Smoking Cigarette Packs Camels Tumors

Author:Arj Barker

“You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.”

Needs Horse Packs Sandwiches Wild Horses

Author:Phil McGraw

“Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?”

Car Horse Smell Ems Packs Baggage Jacob Wade Manure

Author:Sara Gruen

“There's always [on women's magazines] that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?'”

Enough Shows Six Models Horse Structure Bones Actresses Teeth Magazines Shirts Good Enough Packs Lifting Lifting Up Six Packs

Author:Janeane Garofalo