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“You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew th...”
“Once a month, for one evening, we are free to wear our natural skins. We are on the outside as we are internally.”
“A long shaft of light came down from the sun behind the clouds and fell on the rearing, striking horses so that Thowra was the glittering foam on a waterfall, was quicksilver held for a dazzling mo...”
“Men were like horses, she mused dreamily. All they needed was breaking in.”
“There were worse things than death.There would be a leap and a moment suspended, then a long hopeless curve to the rocks and river below. They would fall like leaves between clouds of swifts and th...”
“The pony is mad. She can go from a relaxed walk to a flat out gallop in seconds if something spooks her, and she wont stop until she practically crashes into something. Ive seen her buck, rear and ...”
“Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding hill tracks. Songs were sung about him to the cattle and both songs ...”
“The horse does of two things. He does what he thinks he's supposed to do, or he does what he thinks he needs to do to survive.”
“There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse racing.”
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
“I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing off on me, but I've grown slightly mellower living in Wyoming. I think if you ride in...”
“Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.”
“You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.”
“With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had origi...”
“Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.”
“I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.”
“The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.”
“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”
“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.”
“As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.”
