Four Horsemen Quotes:

The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

- Terry Pratchett

source: "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

topic: War, Holiday, Storm, Common Cold, Four Horsemen

It's not the end of the world to lose.

- Andy Murray

topic: World, End Of The World, Ends, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Ageing

The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.

- Elaine Pagels

topic: Dream, War, Book, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Book Of Revelation

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

- Margaret Chase Smith

source: Speech in Senate, 1 June 1950 See Blasco-Ibáñez 1; Grantland Rice 2

topic: Fear, Party, Ignorance, Horsemen, Political Victory

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Dream, Lying, Wrath, Horsemen, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Horsemen, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Information Age, Modern Era, Cameos

But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.

- Bruce Sterling

source: "So, people, we have a fight on our hands" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

topic: Dope, Government, Long, Horsemen, Four Horsemen

The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

source: Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.99, Penguin

topic: Military, Army, Numbers, Horsemen, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

- Simon Barnes

topic: Funny, Husband, Mind, Horsemen, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.

- Bruce Schneier

source: "Computer Crime Hype". www.schneier.com. December 16, 2005.

topic: Children, Government, Drug, Horsemen, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

A lot of people we tell the story to assume that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were actually part of the original Washington Irving story, which only happens to be 17 pages. It's a great starting point, and then we built on it, very much in a logical progression.

- Roberto Orci

topic: Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, People, Stories, Horsemen, Four Horsemen

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

- John M. Gottman

topic: Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Criticism, Worst, Defensiveness, Four Horsemen

The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.

- William Least Heat-Moon

source: William Least Heat-Moon (2014). “PrairyErth: A Deep Map”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Taken, Fire, Two, Prairie, Four Horsemen

Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages. You’ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive.

- Peter Golenbock

topic: Character, Opportunity, Purple, Horsemen, Gertrude

Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2008). “Storm Born”, p.43, Kensington Publishing Corp.

topic: War, Cat, Names, Four Horsemen, Whiskers

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Army, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Wind, Torres, Four Horsemen

You like the girl," Alasdair offered. Nassar leveled a heavy gaze at him. "Lillian said you tried to be funny in the car. I told her it couldn't possibly be true. The moment you try to make a joke, the sky shall split and the Four Horsemen will ride out, heralding Apocalypse.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Girl, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Sky, Four Horsemen

With the advent of 24-hour Sky News, the News Flash has been greatly devalued. Time was, when something unimaginably horrendous had to happen before it was deemed worthy of a News Flash. At least one, preferably two, and ideally all four horsemen of the apocalypse would have to be involved.

- Declan Lynch

topic: Sky, Two, News, Horsemen, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Eros won't outlast duality. As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

- Zygmunt Bauman

topic: Love Is, Four, Roaming, Horsemen, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

topic: War, Four, Pestilence, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Famine