#horses

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. ↗

— George Savile

#horses #may #men #stealing #stolen

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#blinds #deep #difficult #event #experience

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love. ↗

— William Shatner

#deal #derive #dogs #great #great deal

I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses. ↗

— Caroll Shelby

#acres #also #american #another #cattle

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#baseball #beat #because #betting #gambling

In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year. ↗

— Keith Thibodeaux

#beach #christmas #even #fact #few

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#cowboy #drive #first #horses #i

But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy. ↗

— Diane Lane

#horses #i #i do #joy #love

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#hero-worship #horses #love #riding #superiority

Failure was startling, really. So startling that I hardly noticed it at all. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#racing #love