“The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.” PeopleYearsTodayFiveDoorsYears AgoHorseFive YearsRidingLockedComing Back Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933 Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933
“A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.” YearsBelieveJobsFilmCareersFindingsTrainingYears AgoHorseRidingDisguiseConsumedBoon Author:Randeep Hooda
“Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.” YearsPastNightBoysCarFrontsColorBearsBirdRedYears AgoHorseHillsWheelsSundayAfternoonCavesAll NightMotorWalesHarpsDampParlorDuchessDaftFlannelsSunday AfternoonsMotor CarsDeacons Book:A Child's Christmas in Wales Source: A Child's Christmas in Wales
“We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?” WantYearsKindDiesCausesCitiesStreetsCarYears AgoHorseCancerLibertarianNinePollutionEightyFeverAnklesCity StreetsOld CarTyphoid Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear and dogs fight in a pit, racing Jews like horses, and had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Today there are vegans who won't kill a fly, and yet wars too.” YearsHumansWarTodayChristianMovingFightingSpeakEnjoyDogHuman NatureBearsEmpathyYears AgoHorseJewVeganRacingPitsExpectancyLife ExpectancySpeak Less Author:Frank Schaeffer
“Halt! How are you? What have you been doing? Where's Abelard? How's Crowley? What's this all about?" "I'm glad to see you rate my horse more important than our Corps Commandant," Halt said, one eyebrow rising in the expression that Will knew so well. Early in their relationship, he had thought it was an expression of displeasure. He had learned years ago that it was, for Halt, the equivalent of a smile.” YearsWellsSaidImportantExpressionYears AgoHorseRateGladRisingEyebrowsHaltDispleasure Author:John Flanagan
“We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive-through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?” WantShouldYearsKindHardDiesCausesCitiesLibertyMillionsStreetsCarMassHundredSittingYears AgoWindowHorseTrainCancerOilLibertarianNineLibertarianismPollutionReplacedEightyFeverTransportationMcdonaldsAnklesSpeedingCity StreetsOld CarTyphoid Author:P. J. O'Rourke