“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.” FeelsCountryFactsLeftFeltPoorAttentionStrangeDutyKingsIntellectualStandingHorseEnglandInstitutionsWingsBoxesCirclesStealingAshamedRacingNationalityEnglishmenLeft WingGreat CountryPuddingDisgracefulHorse Racing Book:A Collection of Essays Source: A Collection of Essays
“I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.” MenTryingMightAmericaChangePoorRiversHorseLeagueConventionsCrossings Book:Letters and addresses of Abraham Lincoln Source: Letters and addresses of Abraham Lincoln
“That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're dark or if you're light, or if you're rich or you're poor, if you're handsome or not so handsome.” IfsLightCareDarkPoorRichHorsePrejudiceDon't CareTallHandsomeCool Things Author:Buck Brannaman
“I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing], and while I keep mine within due bounds and limits, nobody, I flatter myself, would wish to deprive me of the poor animal: to be sure, he is not formed for labour, and is rather lame and weak, but then the dear creature is faithful, constant, and loving, and though he sometimes prances, would not kick anyone into the mire, or hurt a single soul for the world--and I would not part with him for one who could win the greatest prize that ever was won at any races.” WorldWritingSoulSometimesWinningWishHurtAnimalPoorRaceMinesCreaturesLimitsWeakHorseConstantBoundsDearDuesSuperiorsFaithfulKicksLabourPrizeHobbiesJournalLameJournal Writing Author:Fanny Burney
“Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.” PeopleMenWayGivingWellsLongStillsTwoLastsHousePoorRoomsPrideFineProudCostClothesLaborHorseSilentSelfishVanityVainGentleSoilPotatoesLong WayCornMen WomenBeansPoor ManDrawbacksSaloons Book:Nature - Conduct of Life Source: Nature - Conduct of Life
“I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.” MenWantPainUsedSufferingAnimalPoorWeekSightHorseSticksEndureDrivenOne ManAnother ManSlaughterhousesLimping Author:Albert Schweitzer
“Ram, ass, and horse, my Kyrnos, we look over With care, and seek good stock for good to cover; And yet the best men make no argument, But wed, for money, runts of poor descent. So too a woman will demean her state And spurn the better for the richer mate. Money's the cry. Good stock to bad is wed And bad to good, till all the world's cross-bred. No wonder if the country's breed declines- Mixed metal, Kyrnos, that but dimly shines.” IfsMenWorldLooksCountryStatesCarePoorWonderCryArgumentCrossesHorseShiningAssMatesMetalsDeclineEugenicsDescentRamsRunts Author:Theognis of Megara
“You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that at each moment each one of us, man, woman, child, perhaps even the poor old horse turning the mill-wheel, knew what was just: all creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. "But we live in a world of laws," I said to my poor prisoner, "a world of the second-best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is to uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldChildrenSaidMomentsLawCan DoMemoriesJusticePoorDoubtCreaturesHorseFallenWheelsNo DoubtAllowingPrisonerFadesMen WomenMillsYou Think You KnowSecond Best Author:J. M. Coetzee
“I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.” MenLiteratureWomenPoorCatHorseInsecurityHostileCockroaches Author:Norman Mailer
“He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man that would ride full gallop whose horse will hardly trot. Now the desire of his mind is not to be judged of by the slow pace of the dull jade he rides on, but by the hitching and kicking and spurring as he sits on his back. Thy flesh is like this dull jade, it will not gallop after Christ, it will be backward though thy soul and heaven lie at stake.” MenMindArtSoulLyingDesireHeavenChristPoorHe ManHorseFleshDullPaceStakesJudgedKickingJade Author:John Bunyan