Horse Metaphor Quotes

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

I'm a horse of a man!

I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds.

I'm a wild horse, to say the least, and with age, I haven't calmed down completely.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

I've married a friggin horse. And he bites.

When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.

It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?