Horses Quotes
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The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a stable. (Quote by - Samantha Armstrong)
A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. (Quote by - W.C. Fields)
They say princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship. The reason is the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. (Quote by - Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems, "Illiteratus princeps")
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. (Quote by - C.J.J. Mullen)
Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses). (Quote by - David Jason)
To me, horses and freedom are synonymous. (Quote by - Veryl Goodnight)
I will drive a coach and six horses through the Act of Settlement (Quote by - Sir Stephen Rice)
Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business. (Quote by - Franklin P Jones)
I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. (Quote by - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye)
And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimski; for he driveth furiously. (Quote by - Bible)
I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)
Again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me - the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs - little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory. (Quote by - Wynford Vaughan-Thomas)
The horse is God's gift to mankind. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)
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. (Quote by - Stephen Leacock)
Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it. (Quote by - John Moore)
Even an E-type Jaguar looks merely flash beside a really smart pony and trap. (Quote by - Marion C. Garretty)
How amusing racing would be if it were not for the horses. They take people's minds off conversatin. (Quote by - Valentine Browne)
Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. (Quote by - Stephen Leacock)
The wildest colts only make the best horses. (Quote by - Plutarch)
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
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. (Quote by - Sherwood Anderson)
Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means. (Quote by - Rudolf C. Binding)
It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. (Quote by - Mexican Proverb)
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. (Quote by - Gerald Raferty)
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers. (Quote by - Charles M. Russell)
Competitions are for horses, not artists. (Quote by - Bela Bartok)
An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1758)
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion [horses] (Quote by - Kate Millett)
Competition is for dogs and horses. (Quote by - Geri Halliwell)
I couldn't do them if I didn't know horses lived behind them. (Quote by - Charles Keeping)
Horses are uncomfortable in the middle and dangerous at both ends. (Quote by - Attributed to both Christopher Stone and Ian Fleming)
If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong. (Quote by - Pat Parelli)
A canter is a cure for every evil. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
I just want to get a family, get my horses, and chill out. (Quote by - Aurelie Claudel)
God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses. (Quote by - R.B. Cunninghame Graham, letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 1917)
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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. (Quote by - Bedouin Legend)
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. (Quote by - William Penn)
I have two Icelandic horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig. (Quote by - Cornelia Funke)
She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands... It was a special embrace saved for special occasions. (Quote by - Jean M. Auel)
The wildest colts make the best horses. (Quote by - Plutarch)
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. (Quote by - Pam Brown)
A Horseman should know neither fear, nor anger. (Quote by - James Rarey)
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. (Quote by - Marquis Of Halifax)
Girls who ride horses don't necessarily have big behinds. (Quote by - Ann Moore)
Why did this animal that had prospered so in the Colorado desert leave his amiable homeland for Siberia? There is no answer. We know that when the horse negotiated the land bridge... he found on the other end an opportunity for varied development that is one of the bright aspects of animal history. He wandered into France and became the mighty Percheron, and into Arabia, where he developed into a lovely poem of a horse, and into Africa where he became the brilliant zebra, and into Scotland, where he bred selectively to form the massive Clydesdale. He would also journey into Spain, where his very name would become the designation for gentleman, a caballero, a man of the horse. There he would flourish mightily and serve the armies that would conquer much of the known world. (Quote by - James Michener)
I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul. (Quote by - Attributed to Edward Plantagenet)
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan. (Quote by - Pam Brown)
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts. (Quote by - William Shakespeare, Henry V)
In riding a horse we borrow freedom. (Quote by - Helen Thomson)
The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
I saw them go; one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet. (Quote by - Horace Smith and James Smith)
And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they run.(Quote by - Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. (Quote by - Marya Mannes)
Villain, a horse--Villain, I say, give me a horse to fly, To swim the river, villain, and to fly. (Quote by - George Peele)
Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
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. (Quote by - C.W. Anderson)
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. (Quote by - Duke of Endinburgh)
Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house. (Quote by - Maya Patel)
I prefer a bike to a horse. The brakes are more easily checked. (Quote by - Lambert Jeffries)
People have always cared me a bit, you see - they're so complicated. I suppose that's why I prefer horses. (Quote by - From the movie Separate Tables, 1958)
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. (Quote by - John Adams)
The king is come. Deal mildly with his youth; For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
A horse doesn't care how much you know, until he knows how much you care. (Quote by - Pat Parelli)
A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. (Quote by - Beryl Markham)
Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world. (Quote by - Josephine Demott Robinson)
I work with horses a lot on the show and am aware that Strangles really is an awful, painful disease for horses (Quote by - Georgia Slowe)
Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and the horses, and they wouldn't understand you. (Quote by - Bill Linderman)
His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud chest swells with hard muscles. (Quote by - Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
The horse through all its trials has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood. (Quote by - Johannes Jensen)
A horse is worth more than riches. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)
When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age, you splatter. (Quote by - Roy Rogers)
One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! (Quote by - Nicholas Evans)
Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. (Quote by - Robert Smith)
The English take the breeding of their horses and dogs more seriously than they do their children. (Quote by - Princess Michael Of Kent)
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on! (Quote by - Nikolai Larisa Voloklonsky)
