Chicken Soup for the Site Visitor

 

For Equestians:	For Thinkers:
"The horse is dangerous on both ends and uncomfortable in the middle"  Ian Fleming 1908-1964 "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink without he will."  John Heywood 1546 "You can ride a horse to water, but you can't make him walk on it."  Dressage riders everywhere "Half the failures of this world arise from pullin in one's horse as he is leaping."     Julius Hare (1795-1855) "Reason lies between the spur and bridle"  George Herbert 1651 "Nothing does as much for the insides of a man than the ousides of a horse."  Ronald Reagan b. 1911 "Set the cart before the horse"  John Heywood 1546 "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."  Holy Roman Emperor Charles V 1500-1558 "The antique Persians taught three useful things.  To draw the bow, to ride, and to speak the truth."   George Noel Gordon, Lory Byron 1788-1824 "To keep a horse in perpetual subjection and slavery, makes him either desperately or stupidly restive.  Divert him therefore sometimes, give him liberty, riding him large upon a piste in walk, trot and gallopo, finishing quietly, and you will gind good will result from it."  William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle 1592-1676 "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"  King Richard the Third, William Shakespear 1592 "He doth nothing but talk of his horse!"  The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare 1564-1616	"The secret of life is to fall down seven times and to get up eight times."  Paulo Coelho "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."  George Burns “In a friendship we’re free to expose parts of ourselves nobody else knows. But the thing that binds it and sets it apart, Is not something spoken, it’s a bond of the heart. Good friends are rare, in a lifetime two or three... I’m so glad it happened between you and me.”  Abraham Lincoln "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" "On a cellular level I'm really quite busy!" "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistance.  Talent will not.  Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.  Genius will not.  Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not.  The world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistance, determination, and hard work makes the difference."    Calvin Coolidge With pipes of tin and wood make known the truth each star displays: Creation is a field that's sown with seeds of thanks and praise. Articulate with measured sound the song that fills all things For even atoms dance around and solid matter sings. Text: Thomas H. T. Roeger, American, 1994; Music Alfred V. Fedak, American, 2000 It's the morter not the brick, that makes the man. Are you willing to be lucky? "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiently; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause.  Who at the best knows triumph of high achievement.  Who at the worst, if he fails , at least fails while daring greatly.  So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid soulds who know neither victory, nor defeat."    Theodore Roosevelt The first rule of the fanatic:  When you are obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.
	*Great One Liners* Borrow money from pessimists -they don't expect it back. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.