Quotes of Buck - somelinesforyou

“ Years ago someone pointed out that Texas is hell on women and horses. He was wrong about horses, for most horses are considered to be valuable, and are treated very well. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars. ”

- Unknown

“ If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars. ”

- E. S. Kinnear

“ An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag. ”

- Unknown

“ The Goatherd and the Wild Goats A goatherd, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up together with his own for the night. The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold… ”

- Aesop

“ Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars… ”

- Charles Dickens

“ A long war like this makes you realise the society you really prefer, the home, goats chickens and dogs and casual acquaintances. I find myself not caring at all for gardens flowers or vegetables cats cows and rabbits, one gets tired of trees vines and hills, but houses, goats chickens dogs and casual acquaintances never pall. ”

- Gertrude Stein

“ The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses — not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit. ”

- George Allen

“ My kid asked if he could borrow ten dollars. When I only gave him five dollars he said, "Okay, since you owe me the other five dollars, we'll call it even. ”

- Unknown

“ The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare. ”

- Meriwether Lewis

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

- George Savile

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

- Edward F. Halifax

“ Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people. ”

- W. C. Fields

“ For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ 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

“ An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag. ”

- Unknown

“ Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. ”

- Hobart Brown

“ Competitions are for horses, not artists. ”

- Bela Bartok

“ I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does. ”

- Pete Conrad

“ Every kid in Cuba knows what the dollar is worth, it is the other currency and there are many things you can only buy with American dollars. ”

- Wim Wenders

“ They have become the really hot projects. Hogs and sheep are not increasing as dramatically as the rabbits and goats, but they are going up too. ”

- Earl Allen

“ I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice. ”

- Linda McCartney

“ I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been. ”

- Sam Walton

“ It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ”

- Tom Brokaw

“ Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck. ”

- Raymond Chandler

“ The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. ”

- Rupert Murdoch

“ The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks. ”

- Daffy Duck
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