horses

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse."

CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

Violin, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving, but does not make any progress.

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams."

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.