“The grey mare is the better horse.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A golden bit does not make a better horse.”
Letter XLI: On the god within us
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLI: On the god within us
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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
“Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.”
Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer
Source: Ruby
“A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.”
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Source: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 12
“There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
According to The quote verifier: who said what, where, and when (2006), Keyes, Macmillan, p. 91 ISBN 0312340044 , the cover of a trade magazine once credited this observation to Churchill, but it dates back well into the nineteenth century, and has been variously attributed to Henry Ward Beecher, Oliver Wendell Holmes, w:Theodore Roosevelt, w:Thomas Jefferson, w:Will Rogers and Lord Palmerston, among others. One documented use in Social Silhouettes (1906) by George William Erskine Russell, p. 218 wherein a character attributes the saying to Lord Palmerston.
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“The truly golden age of the people does not lie in the past, but in the future.”
D. N. Jha (1940) Indian historian
quoted from Arun Shourie (2014) Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud. HarperCollin
“changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Source: Liar's Game
“It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.”
Navjot Singh Sidhu (1963) Indian cricketer and politician
Referring to Dinesh Mongia, who was like a reliable pony than Sachin Tendulkar who at that time, was more like an unreliable horse, on a television broadcast (11 July 2002), during a one day match with Sri Lanka in England.
“A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
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(15 October 1994)