You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.
You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
You cannot make horses 'safe.'
There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.
You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.
My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.
I have always been a pencil.