“...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.” MenWayFirstsBelieveDifferentFeelingsProblemBeautifulFormThreeI BelieveGrowthInterestingStudyWeekHe ManMassHorseFascinatingBiologyEntertainingPlatesRapidsComes And GoesMoldVery BeautifulManureRevulsionRapid Growth Author:David Fairchild
“Some guys make their careers off one horse; kind of a trick horse, a wonder horse. I'm not knocking that, but for me I'm trying to get better and study. That means taking out new horses. It's a life study. When I've finished a horse, I turn him out and basically stop riding him, except taking him to the occasional branding so I can enjoy him.” TryingKindMeanI CanGuyTurnsEnjoyWonderCareersStudyHorseFinishedTricksGet BetterRidingBrandingOccasionalKnocking Author:Buck Brannaman
“When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsWellsLittlesLastsKnownStudyIndustryTasteHorsePraiseBeerLast YearPatriotApologizingOffendedSessionRatingSubversive Author:Mike Royko
“The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study.” IfsFirstsArtStudyHorseFoundationRidingPrincipalHorsemenHorsemanshipCowboys And HorsesDressage Author:Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere
“Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large, do not study the workings of the actual economic system. They theorize about it. As Ely Devons, an English economist, once said in a meeting: 'If economists wanted to study the horse, they wouldn't go around and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, `What would I do if I were a horse?' '” IfsWorldYearsLooksSaidRealWantedStudyEconomicEventsEconomicsHorseMeetingsAbstractReal WorldEconomistDivorcedEconomic SystemsDevon Author:Ronald Coase
“It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about things and try to learn - I don't like to learn from anybody. Later on I would, once I'd get the hang of things. Like I ride horses, I'm good at that, Western riding. I learned all about it reading and studying. I'm always learning about horses, I like that.” TryingBookReadingTeachStudyHorseWestern Author:Don McLean
“I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.” DoneOrderBoysStudyEqualDecidedHorseManageChiefsGreekCourageous Book:Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897
“Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.” TwoAnimalHalfStudyCreaturesGoldHorseDollarsSurpriseFiftyLionsQuartersCentsEaglesCompoundsZoology Book:The Devil's Dictionary Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts - such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing.” MenCountryWholeLinesStudyMilitaryDiseaseHorseArmyPreparedPursueBeastPoisonPlagueLaboratoryCropsAdvancingCattleGreat CountryPestilenceBlightAnthrax Book:Churchill: The Power of Words Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.” StillsTogetherCoursesChangeCompanyStudyHorseStrategyCommitteesCheaperRidersHarnessDakota Author:Gary Hamel