“Employers are like horses — they require management.”
P.G. Wodehouse book Carry On, Jeeves
Source: Carry on, Jeeves
“What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! … I could manage this horse better than others do.”
Statement upon seeing Bucephalas being led away as useless and beyond training, as quoted in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by Arthur Hugh Clough
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Ronald H. Coase (1910–2013) British economist and author
Ronald Coase in speech to the "International Society of New Institutional Economics" the 17 September 1999, Washington DC. He claims he was quoting fellow economist Ely Devons which reportedly said this in a meeting
1990s and later
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Sophia and Luke, Chapter 4 Sophia, p. 64
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)
“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
Advice to her secretary; quoted inThe Kennedys (1984) by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
Henry George (1839–1897) American economist
Source: Protection or Free Trade? (1886), Ch. 2
Context: The needs of labor require more than kind words, and are not to be satisfied by such soft phrases as we address to a horse when we want to catch him that we may put a bit in his mouth and a saddle on his back. Let me ask those who are disposed to regard protection as favorable to the aspirations of labor, to consider whether it can be true that what labor needs is to be protected?
To admit that labor needs protection is to acknowledge its inferiority; it is to acquiesce in an assumption that degrades the workman to the position of a dependent, and leads logically to the claim that the employee is bound to vote in the interest of the employer who provides him with work.
There is something in the very word "protection" that ought to make workingmen cautious of accepting anything presented to them under it. The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny — the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.
“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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“Halt shook his head. Frankly, he'd seen sacks of potatoes that could sit a horse better than Erak”
John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower
Source: The Battle for Skandia