Quotes About Bridle

nodded again. "Exactly," he said. "According to Bible prophecy, that will be one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on earth. The blood of the soldiers who die will run in streams, it says, as deep as a horse's bridle, but Israel will not be defeated." Sam looked up at him.

Mariners are like to a stiffe necked horse, which taking the bridle betwixt his teeth, forceth his rider to what him list, mauger his will; so they having once concluded, and resolved, are with great difficultie brought to yeelde to the raynes of reason; and to color their negligence, they add cost, trouble, and delay.

The world pampers the body with food and material comforts," she said. "They appease the flesh but are enemies of the spirit. Abstinence is a bridle that gives the spirit a chance in the eternal quarrel with the body.

I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good.

He turn'd him right and round aboutUpon the Irish shore;And gae his bridle reins a shake,With adieu forevermore,My dear—And adieu forevermore!

So…that's like your pet monkey?" – Nick (The tiny horse snorted flames and whinnied at him.) "Easy, girl. You'd do well to show her respect. She can understand you, and she doesn't take well to insults." – Death "Sorry, Flicka. Didn't mean to rattle your bridle." – Nick

Curled tight as a caterpillar, his fingers laced through the bridle as if the touch of iron could ease his agony, he still flinched when the light struck his face.

He wasn't sure if the salt and iron he tasted was blood and the bridle, or Mehiel's tears.

A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.

Desire urges me on while fear bridals me

Hard Wind Sister with iron hooves Together we shall travel steppes that no man nor mount has seen Courage will be my saddle And your bridle shall be my faith in you …

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

For though to let loose the bridle to lusts, while our opinions are against such things, is bad; yet, to sin, and plead a toleration so to do, is worse. The one stumbles beholders accidentally, the other pleads them into the snare.

Shake a bridle over a Yorkshireman's grave, and he'll rise and steal a horse.

I have come to the conclusion that the true benefit of religion is not to make people virtuous, which is impossible, but to put a sort of bridle on the worst excesses of their viciousness.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle.

Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.5 But

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.

There is an iron "scold's bridle" in Walton Church.  They used these things in ancient days for curbing women's tongues.  They have given up the attempt now.  I suppose iron was getting scarce, and nothing else would be strong enough.

To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. —SCYLVENDI

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.