John Dryden Quotes

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

I've always enjoyed being on a horse.

I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do.

It's very good for you, riding. Every model is like, "I do yoga." I find horses have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move. So you have to use your body to help this horse do incredibly difficult movements that don't come naturally to it. And if something goes wrong, it's not the horse's fault; it's always your fault. So you have to be quite levelheaded. And then the whole nature aspect of it is very calming.

A horse is simply a horse.

The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon as you start riding horses seriously, you're being disciplined on a daily basis about how ignorant you are and what there is left for you to learn.

It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.

I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when I'm on them, and they can sense that and they get a bit paranoid. It ends up in this bad spiral where I don't want to be on them, and they don't want me on their backs.

Won't you ride my white horse?

I love horses so much. Horses are my life.

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.

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!

The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.

The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

I didn't get dizzy, but I love working with horses.

If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.