#horse

Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#cormac-mccarthy #john-dunn #men

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves. ↗

— P.J. Sullivan

#greatness #historical #history #horses #men

Proper handling of a horse like this is no simple matter. He was trained to race, from birth. Not only to race, but to be the best. Once a champion, he was spoiled with attention and permissive handling. Add to that, he's an ungelded male, with a strong natural mating drive. It all adds up to a horse with a mile-wide streak of arrogance, bloody bored out of his mind. Without proper exercise and opportunities to mate, all that aggressive energy festers. He becomes moody, intractable, withdrawn, destructive." Ashworth raised an eyebrow at Bellamy. "Is it just me, or is this conversation becoming uncomfortably personal?" Spencer fumed. "I'm not referring to myself, you ass. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#humor #men #humor

When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#revenge

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#director #face #following #hands #happened

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#days #encampment #excessively #fatigued #horses

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#bears #bee #borne #good #grapes

As my mom used to say,"If wishes were horses, we'd be up to our eyeballs in shit. ↗

— Cat Adams

#cat-adams #eyeballs #horses #humor #mom

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bank #good #guide #himself #his

I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#buffalo #ever #had #horse #i