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• Having a daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course.
  You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have the head ....
• hirty-nine are mad. Well, they sound ideal. They would be if they hadn't all got married last week in Munich to the same horse.
  -- Edmund and Baldrick : Amy and Amiability...
• If you're a cowboy, and you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine.
  -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey...
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
• I'd rather be riding a dragon.
• IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound.
  This, however, is inaccurate; to imaple is, properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position....
• He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Locksley Hall, Line 49...
• Hug me now, you mad, impetuous fool!! Oh wait... I'm a computer, and you're a person.
  It would never work out. Never mind....
• The honeymooning couple agreed it was a fine day for horseback riding.
  After a mile or so, the bride's mount cantered under a low tree and a branch scraped her forehead lightly....