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Familiar Quotations

Horses

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.–Marty Allen

A fence should be horse high, hog tight and bull strong.–Anonymous

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.–Anonymous

No horse goes as fast as the money you bet on him.–Anonymous

The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense.–Anonymous

The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse.–Anonymous

You can't train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.–Anonymous

What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.–Vicky Aragon

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.–George Arundale

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.–Arthur Baer

• Preface xi
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Horses 1
• Horses – "Bucks" 4
• Horses – "Life" 4
• Horses – "Mount" 5
• Horses – "Ride" 5
• Use in Literature 7
• Horses 7
• Horses – "Air" 23
• Horses – "Animals" 24
• Horses – "Appeared" 25
• Horses – "Approach" 26
• Horses – "Armed" 27
• Horses – "Artillery" 28
• Horses – "Attending" 28
• Horses – "Bad" 29
• Horses – "Bear" 30
• Horses – "Behind" 31
• Horses – "Being" 32
• Horses – "Believed" 34
• Horses – "Best" 34
• Horses – "Beyond" 35
• Horses – "Big" 36
• Horses – "Breakfast" 36
• Horses – "Breathing" 37
• Horses – "Broken" 37
• Horses – "Called" 38
• Horses – "Camp" 39
• Horses – "Care" 40
• Horses – "Carriages" 40
• Horses – "Cart" 43
• Horses – "Cases" 44
• Horses – "Cattle" 45
• Horses – "Changed" 46
• Horses – "Charge" 47
• Horses – "Cleared" 48
• Horses – "Close" 48
• Horses – "Came" 49
• Horses – "Command" 54
• Horses – "Completely" 55
• Horses – "Confusion" 55
• Horses – "Cost" 56
• Horses – "Country" 56
• Horses – "Cow" 57
• Horses – "Dark" 58
• Horses – "Daybreak" 59
• Horses – "Day" 59
• Horses – "Dead" 61
• Horses – "Deep" 61
• Horses – "Different" 62
• Horses – "Doctor" 62
• Horses – "Dogs" 63
• Horses – "Done" 64
• Horses – "Don't" 64
• Horses – "Drawn" 65
• Horses – "Drink" 66
• Horses – "Driver" 67
• Horses – "Ears" 69
• Horses – "Early" 70
• Horses – "Easily" 70
• Horses – "Eaten" 71
• Horses – "Elephants" 72
• Horses – "End" 73
• Horses – "Eyes" 73
• Horses – "Far" 74
• Horses – "Farming" 75
• Horses – "Fast" 76
• Horses – "Father" 76
• Horses – "Fed" 77
• Horses – "Feet" 78
• Horses – "Felt" 80
• Horses – "Few" 80
• Horses – "Field" 82
• Horses – "Figures" 83
• Horses – "Fit" 83
• Horses – "Followed" 84
• Horses – "Forcing" 85
• Horses – "Formed" 85
• Horses – "Forward" 86
• Horses – "Found" 87
• Horses – "Friend" 90
• Horses – "Full" 90
• Horses – "Galloping" 91
• Horses – "Gently" 92
• Horses – "Getting" 93
• Horses – "Go" 93
• Horses – "Gone" 96
• Horses – "Graze" 97
• Horses – "Great" 98
• Horses – "Grooming" 101
• Horses – "Ground" 101
• Horses – "Guided" 103
• Horses – "Halting" 103
• Horses – "Hand" 103
• Horses – "Hang" 105
• Horses – "Hard" 105
• Horses – "Harnessed" 105
• Horses – "Harry" 106
• Horses – "Having" 107
• Horses – "Head" 109
• Horses – "Heard" 112
• Horses – "Heavily" 113
• Horses – "Helpers" 114
• Horses – "Hidden" 115
• Horses – "Holding" 115
• Horses – "Home" 116
• Horses – "Hoofs" 116
• Horses – "Horseman" 117
• Horses – "Hour's" 118
• Horses – "House" 118
• Horses – "Hunters" 119
• Horses – "Kept" 120
• Horses – "Kicked" 122
• Horses – "Killed" 123
• Horses – "Knight" 124
• Horses – "Know" 125
• Horses – "Ladies" 127
• Horses – "Laid" 127
• Horses – "Lame" 128
• Horses – "Large" 128
• Horses – "Leadership" 129
• Horses – "Leaped" 130
• Horses – "Left" 131
• Horses – "Legs" 133
• Horses – "Limbs" 134
• Horses – "Lining" 134
• Horses – "Little" 135
• Horses – "Lived" 137
• Horses – "Look" 138
• Horses – "Loose" 141
• Horses – "Lost" 142
• Horses – "Lying" 142
• Horses – "Made" 143
• Horses – "Man" 147
• Horses – "Manner" 155
• Horses – "Masters" 156
• Horses – "Miles" 156
• Horses – "Morning" 157
• Horses – "Mount" 158
• Horses – "Mountains" 161
• Horses – "Movement" 161
• Horses – "Mules" 162
• Horses – "Natives" 163
• Horses – "Near" 164
• Horses – "Need" 165
• Horses – "Night" 165
• Horses – "Nothing" 167
• Horses – "Numbered" 168
• Horses – "Officers" 168
• Horses – "Old" 169
• Horses – "Once" 171
• Horses – "Opened" 172
• Horses – "Order" 173
• Horses – "Others" 174
• Horses – "Ourselves" 174
• Horses – "Party" 175
• Horses – "Passed" 177
• Horses – "Pasture" 178
• Horses – "Paid" 179
• Horses – "People" 179
• Horses – "Place" 180
• Horses – "Plain" 182
• Horses – "Poor" 182
• Horses – "Presently" 183
• Horses – "Pressed" 184
• Horses – "Property" 185
• Horses – "Question" 185
• Horses – "Quietly" 186
• Horses – "Race" 186
• Horses – "Rain" 187
• Horses – "Ready" 188
• Horses – "Reason" 189
• Horses – "Reins" 189
• Horses – "Report" 190
• Horses – "Rest" 190
• Horses – "Return" 191
• Horses – "Richly" 192
• Horses – "Rifle" 192
• Horses – "River" 193
• Horses – "Road" 194
• Horses – "Ropes" 195
• Horses – "Round" 195
• Horses – "Ran" 196
• Horses – "Rushed" 198
• Horses – "Saddle" 199
• Horses – "Seeing" 200
• Horses – "Sent" 201
• Horses – "Servants" 201
• Horses – "Seven" 202
• Horses – "Shall" 203
• Horses – "Sheep" 204
• Horses – "Shot" 205
• Horses – "Showed" 205
• Horses – "Side" 206
• Horses – "Sight" 207
• Horses – "Sit" 208
• Horses – "Soldiers" 209
• Horses – "Soon" 209
• Horses – "Sound" 213
• Horses – "Speed" 214
• Horses – "Spirit" 215
• Horses – "Spring" 215
• Horses – "Spurred" 216
• Horses – "Square" 217
• Horses – "Stable" 217
• Horses – "Stand" 219
• Horses – "Started" 221
• Horses – "Stay" 223
• Horses – "Step" 223
• Horses – "Stolen" 224
• Horses – "Stones" 225
• Horses – "Stopped" 225
• Horses – "Strangest" 227
• Horses – "Streaming" 228
• Horses – "Streets" 229
• Horses – "Strength" 230
• Horses – "Strong" 230
• Horses – "Talked" 231
• Horses – "Ten" 232
• Horses – "Thing" 233
• Horses – "Thought" 234
• Horses – "Thus" 235
• Horses – "Tied" 236
• Horses – "Times" 237
• Horses – "Tired" 237
• Horses – "Town" 238
• Horses – "Track" 239
• Horses – "Trail" 239
• Horses – "Train" 239
• Horses – "Traveller" 240
• Horses – "Troopers" 241
• Horses – "Trotted" 242
• Horses – "Wagons" 243
• Horses – "Waiting" 244
• Horses – "Walked" 245
• Horses – "Wandering" 246
• Horses – "Wanted" 247
• Horses – "Watches" 247
• Horses – "Water" 248
• Horses – "Waved" 249
• Horses – "Wear" 250
• Horses – "Wheeled" 251
• Horses – "White" 252
• Horses – "Wild" 253
• Horses – "Winds" 254
• Horses – "Wished" 255
• Horses – "Women" 255
• Horses – "Work" 256
• Horses – "World" 257
• Horses – "Young" 257
• Nonfiction Usage 259
• Lyrical Usage 259
• Script Usage 259
• Historical Usage 261
• Song Title Usage 261
• Bible Usage 262
• Qur'anic Usage 268
• Journalism Usage 269
• Legal Usage 304
• Governmental Usage 308
• Patent Usage 309
• Bibliographic Usage 322
• Encyclopedic Usage 374
• Lexicographic Usage 476
• Index 603