#hors

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#cents #courage #deal #forty #get

If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#all day #around #between #day #fall

Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors. ↗

— Jay Leno

#call #correspondents #do you know #house #know

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#authors #come #funnier #hope #largely

Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses? ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#horses #many #more #than #why

I can make more generals, but horses cost money. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#generals #horses #i #i can #make

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#writing #men

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters. ↗

— Eric Liu

#affordable health care #appeal #care #describing #etc

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#asset #frozen #nature

You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles. ↗

— William Lucking

#course #horse #i #i was born #kidding