By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick.
Quotes about halter (13 Quotes)
The calf scramble will be during both rodeo performances and consist of children attempting to catch and halter several loose calves. If a child succeeds, he or she will receive a certificate to purchase a breeding animal to raise and bring back to the livestock show next year.
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy Remember the index expurgatorius, the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter, and the guillotine.
Poverty is the wicked man's tempter, the good man's perdition, the proud man's curse, the melancholy man's halter.
To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
He'll throw his horns around a little bit, run away when we're trying to put the halter around him, pull a hunger strike. He acts like a three year old and that's what he is.
Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a 'halter' intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men.
A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me.
Fancy that thou deservest to be hanged. . . thou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot fancy that thou deservest to be hanged in a hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.
No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.
To His Son Three things there be that prosper up apace And flourish whilst they grow asunder far But on a day, they meet all in one place, And when they meet they one another mar And they be these the wood, the weed, the wag. The wood is that which makes the gallows tree The weed is that which strings the hangman's bag The wag, my pretty knave, betokeneth thee. Mark well, dear boy, whilst these assemble not, Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild But when they meet, it makes the timber rot, It frets the halter, and it chokes the child. Then bless thee, and beware, and let us pray We part not with thee at this meeting day.