Act 3, sc. 4
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(1875–1950) Indian freedom fighter who forged united India
Patel complaining about the Indian Muslims' silence over Kashmir in a speech in Lucknow in 1948, quoted in B.D. Graham: Hindu Nationalism and quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p.349
“School system teach you to ride a horse while in real life we have to ride a car.”
Christian Canlubo
(2002) Filipino Internet Entrepreneur
Source: Christian Canlubo https://en.everybodywiki.com/Christian_Canlubo| Christian Canlubo profile on EverybodyWiki
Christian Canlubo expressed his belief that the school system is too slow.
“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.
“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”
Joanne Harris
(1964) British author
Source: The Girl with No Shadow
“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency.'”
Herbert Hoover
(1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.
p. 357
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Great Depression, 1929-1941 (1952)
James Pierpont (musician)
(1822–1893) American composer whose songs include "Jingle Bells"
Usually misquoted as "Oh! what fun it is to ride"
"The One Horse Open Sleigh"
“Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…”
Mick Jagger
(1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
"Wild Horses" (co-written with Keith Richards), on Sticky Fingers (1971).
Lyrics
Context: I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let's do some living, after we die
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…
“283. A Man in Passion rides a Horse that runs away with him.”
Thomas Fuller (writer)
(1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : A Man in a Passion rides a mad Horse.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)