Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. W.C. Fields

Many people have sighed for the ‘good old days’ and regretted the ‘passing of the horse,’ but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses. C.W. Anderson

Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world. Josephine Demott Robinson

The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears. Arabian Proverb

Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on! Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls,

A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open. Gerald Raferty

Horses are uncomfortable in the middle and dangerous at both ends. Attributed to both Christopher Stone and Ian Fleming

It’s a lot like nuts and bolts – if the rider’s nuts, the horse bolts! Nicholas Evans

A lovely horse is always an experience…. It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. Beryl Markham

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. Mark Twain

He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life. Elizabeth Bibesco

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. Soren Kierkegaard

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. Samuel Johnson

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. William Congreve

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. Robert James Waller

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. Matthew Arnold

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
William Allen White

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. Lamartine

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
William Allen White

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.Seth Parker

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
Daley Thompson

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
Jamie Farr

Growing up, if I hadn’t had sports, I don’t know where I’d be. God only knows what street corners I’d have been standing on and God only knows what I’d have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.
Mike Weir

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
Martina Hingis

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they’re too tough to cry.
Brett Hull

That’s the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey – and know they can win a gold medal, too.
Angela Ruggiero

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. (Voltaire)

If you want to be happy, be. (Leo Tolstoy)

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. (Oscar Wilde )

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. (Benjamin Franklin)

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. (Albert Einstein)

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. (Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens)

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. (Mother Teresa)

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. (Francesca Reigler)

Our happiness is greatest when we contribute most to the happiness of others. (Harriet Shepard)

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. (Marcus Aurelius)

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. (G. K. Chesterton)

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. (Mother Teresa)

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! (William Blake)