Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Popularity is generally an appeal to the people from the sentence given by men of sense against them.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.

Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me.

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

I've always ridden horses.