
Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 179
Sudden Death (1983)
Variant: "If the World Made Sense, Men Would Ride Sidesaddle" was the title of a 1993 one-man comedy by Ed Navis, performed at Wings Theatre, New York.
Variant: If the world were a logical place, then men would ride side-saddle.
Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 179
“Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.”
Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A fool puts a burr under the saddle before she rides.”
Lini
(15 October 1993)
“Saddle the Hippogriffs, ye Muses nine,
And straight we'll ride to the land of old Romance.”
Noch einmahl sattelt mir den Hippogryfen, ihr Musen,
Zum Ritt ins alte romantische Land!
Oberon, Song 1, st. 1 (1780) http://www.archive.org/stream/oberon02187gut/7ober10.txt; translation from Frederick Metcalfe History of German Literature (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1858) p. 109.
Setzen wir Deutschland, so zu sagen, in den Sattel! Reiten wird es schon können.
Speech to Parliament of Confederation (1867)
1860s
“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”
Source: The Girl with No Shadow
" Speech on the Scaffold http://www.bartleby.com/268/3/15.html", 1685
“But it would be enough that, when riding beasts, they behave like men and not like beasts.”
Part II
“If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)”
Source: Sins of the Night