George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) American activist
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.
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) American activist
Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 179
“Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A fool puts a burr under the saddle before she rides.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lini
(15 October 1993)
“Saddle the Hippogriffs, ye Muses nine,
And straight we'll ride to the land of old Romance.”
Christoph Martin Wieland book Oberon
Noch einmahl sattelt mir den Hippogryfen, ihr Musen,<br>Zum Ritt ins alte romantische Land! <br class="br">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.
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) German statesman, Chancellor of Germany
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.”
Joanne Harris (1964) British author
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.”
Bem Cavalgar (1391–1438) King of Portugal
Part II
“If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Sins of the Night