#statues

There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse's hooves: If one of the horse's hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means that the sculptor was very, very clever. Five legs in the air means that there's probably at least one other horse standing behind the horse you're looking at; and the rider lying on the ground with his horse lying on top of him with all four legs in the air means that the rider was either a very incompetent horseman or owned a very bad-tempered horse. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#horses #humor #statues #humor

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#committees #found #i #parks #searched

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#destroy #destroyed #left #only #percent

I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#madonna #queen #statues #beauty

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#religions #sky #small #statues #up

I’m sexually attracted to statues made out of decomposing food. Is it normal to be hungry during intercourse? 
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— Jarod Kintz

#decomposing #food #funny #humor #hunger

When my journal appears, many statues must come down. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#come #down #journal #many #must

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand. ↗

— James Thomson

#life #may #pictures #stand #statues

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. ↗

— Steven Wright

#had #heads #i #museum #museums

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#close #features #five #found #four