Quotes on horses
All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day.
Unknown, Author
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
Churchill, Winston
The horse is God's gift to mankind.
Proverb, Arabian
And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse... Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse.
Legend, Bedouin
Experienced riders are not prone to brag. And usually newcomers, if they start out being boastful, end up modest.
Mullen, C.J.J.
I prefer a bike to a horse. The brakes are more easily checked.
Jeffries, Lambert
I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
Salinger, J. D.
Gipsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark.
Galway, Attributed to the Claddaugh Gypsies of
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
Raferty, Gerald
Look back on our struggle for freedom,
Trace our present day's strength to its source;
And you'll find that man's pathway to glory
Is strewn with the bones of a horse.
Author, Unknown
Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.
Anderson, C.W.
Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground.
Unknown, Author
In riding a horse we borrow freedom.
Thomson, Helen
The one best precept-the golden rule in dealing with a horse, is never to approach him angrily. Anger is so devoid of forethought that it will often drive a man to do things which in a calmer mood he will regret.
Xenophon
If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle.
Brown, Rita Mae
A horse is worth more than riches.
Proverb, Spanish
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
Lucas, E.V.
A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.
Steinbeck, John
A horse is poetry in motion.
Unknown, Author
God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.
Graham, R.B. Cunninghame
If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.
Parelli, Pat
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
Anderson, Sherwood
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
Shakespeare, William
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
Fields, W.C.
Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it.
Moore, John
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Leacock, Stephen
For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail.
Franklin, Benjamin
Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden.
Proverb, Chinese
It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped.
Unknown, Author
A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse.
Mullen, C.J.J.
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
de Cervantes, Miguel
One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Carnegie, Dale