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A pony is a childhood dream;
a horse is an adulthood treasure.
~ Rebecca Carroll
I found one way to fly; on the back of an airborne
horse!
~Sarah Z.
To ride or not to ride? What a stupid
question!
[The horse] has galloped through young girl's
dreams, added richness to grown women's lives, and served men in war and
strife.
~Toni Robinson
Spring and summer are riding on a piebald mare.
~ Russian Proverb
To know the Arabian horse is to love him
Four things greater than all things, are women and
horses and power and war.
~Rudyard Kipling
. . .A horse is a thing of such beauty. . .none
will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
~Xenophon
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in
contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.
~Sharon Ralls Lemon
Horse thou art truly a creature
without equal, for thou fliest
without wings and conquerest
without sword.
~The Koran
A horse gallops with his lungs,
Perseveres with his heart,
And wins with his character.
~Tesio
I love the horse from hoof to head
From head to hoof and tail to mane
I love the horse as I have said
From head to hoof and back again.
~James Whitcomb Riley
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse! (We sell
‘em a bit cheaper.)
~William Shakespeare
The wind of heaven is that which blows between a
horse's ears.
~ Arabian proverb
A good rider on a good horse is as much above
himself and others as the world can make him.
~Lord Herbert
To me, horses and freedom are
synonymous
~Veryl Goodnight
And God took a handful of
southerly wind, blew His breath over it and created the horse.
~Bedouin Legend
Horses change lives. They give our young people
confidence and self esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled
souls- they give us hope!
~Toni Robinson
...Wild to hold, though I seem tame.
~Thomas Wyatt
Has thou given the horse strength? Hast thou
clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid
as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the
valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He
mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He
swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is
the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha ha; and he smelleth
the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
~Job 39:19-25
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.
~C. Mullen
The horse through all its trials has preserved the
sweetness of paradise in its blood.
~Johannes Jensen
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a
home in your manes?
~Nilolai Gogol
There is something about breeding good horses that
makes it the Sport of Kings.
~Stanly
When God created the horse he said
to the magnificent creature: I have made thee as no other. All the treasures of
the earth lie between thy eyes. Thou shalt carry my friends upon thy back. Thy
saddle shall be the seat of prayers to me. And thou fly without wings, and
conquer without any sword. Oh, horse.
~The Koran
Soon I shall go to sleep, in hopes of seeing him
again. His intelligent soft eyes, his elegant head. His soft heart, and his
four legs. For my horse is a dream, a dream of the making.
~Lindsay Turcotte
If I had a horse, I'd ride off in the sunset,
where dreams, and shadows lie. To a life, where pain and sorrow don't exist,
and to where hopes, and dreams become reality.
~Lindsay Turcotte
Ask me to show you poetry in motion, and I will
show you a horse
You know you are going really fast when you are
galloping the same way as
the wind is blowing, yet there is wind in your ears.
...tireless, swift as the flowing wind. Shadowfax
they called him. By day
his coat glistens like silver; and by night it is like a shade, and he
passes unseen. Light is his footfall!
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
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.
~Pam Brown
The sight of [that pony] did something to me I've
never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous strength and
speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming.
~Walt Morey
In riding a horse we borrow freedom.
~Helen Thomson
A canter is a cure for every evil.
~Benjamin Disraeli
Here's to you, Stocking and Star and Blaze.
You brought me all that the best could bring-
Health and mirth and the merriest days
In the open fields and the woodland ways-
And what can I do in return but sing
A song or two in your praise.
~Will H. Ogilvie
God forbid that I should go to any heaven where
there are no horses.
~RB Cunningham-Graham
Gipsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams
in the sun and neighs in the dark.
~Saying of the Claddagh Gipsies of
The horse is God's gift to mankind.
~Arabain Proverb
Sell the cow, buy the sheep, but never be without
the horse.
~Irish proverb
Even an E-type Jaguar looks merely flash beside a
really smart pony and trap.
~Marion C Garretty
Where in this wide world can [ a person ] find
nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty with out vanity? Here
where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined. He serves
without servility, he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful,
nothing less violent; there is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent; there
is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
~Ronald Duncan
...This most noble beast is the most beautiful,
the swiftest and of the highest courage of domesticated animals. His long mane
and tail adorn and beautify him. He is of a fiery temperament, but good
tempered, obedient, docile and well-mannered.
~Pedro Garcia Conde
Through the days of love and
celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning-the faithful horse
has been with us always.
~Elizabeth Cotton
Oh, that ride! That first ride!-most truly it was
an epoch in my existence; and I still look back to it with feelings of longing
and regret. People may talk of their first love-it is a very agreeable event, I
dare say-but give me the flush and triumph and glorious sweat of a first ride,
like mine of the mighty cob...
~George Borrow
If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease
for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul
you onto a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back
like a fireside chair.
Wherever man has left his footprint in the long
ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse
beside it.
~John Trotwood Moore
"No hour of life is
wasted that is spent in the saddle." ~Winston Churchill
Humor top
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's
nuts, the horse bolts!
~The Horse Whisperer
Both a horse and a man have something in
common, both dump you, though generally you get over the horse's dumping first.
There are fools, damn fools, and those who remount
in a steeplechase.
~Bill Whitbread
Why use a crop on the horse? They are made
for the sibling!
You can tell a horse owner by the interior of
their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed
jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and
dogs.
~Helen Thompson
When will they make a tractor that can furnish the
manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?
~George Rupp
If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights,
I would have quit long ago.
~George Morris
He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off
in all directions.
~Stephen Leacock
Small children are convinced that ponies deserve
to see the inside of the house.
~Maya Patel
Poverty is another word for owning
a horse...
While the
~John Heywood
"Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse
lovers like cleaning
stables."
--Monica Dickens
If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a
horse.
--Naomi, 15 Advice from Kids
Your
horse has a reason to be vain. You don’t.
-- Andrew Glass, 14
Training
top
Why use a crop on the horse? They are made
for the sibling!
If you desire to handle a good
war-horse so as to make his action the more magnificent and striking, you must
refrain from pulling at his mouth with the bit as well as from spurring and
whipping him. [...] but if you teach your horse to go with a light hand on the
bit, and yet to hold his head well up and to arch his neck,
you will be making him do just what the animal himself glories and delights in.
~Xenophon - The Art of Horsemanship
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon
also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it
either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
~Xenophon - The Art of Horsemanship
If, however, you reward him with kindness after he
has done as you wish, and punish him when he
disobeys, he will be most likely to learn to obey as he ought.
~Xenophon - The Art of Horsemanship
It is the best of lessons if the horse gets a season of repose whenever he has
behaved to his rider's satisfaction.
~Xenophon - The Art of Horsemanship
Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice.
However, practice without true principles is nothing other than routine, the
fruit of which is a strained and unsure execution, a false
diamond which dazzles semi-connoisseurs often more impressed by the
accomplishments of the horse than the merit of the horseman.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of
the first foundations of the art of riding it, and every horseman must make it
his principal study.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
In order to have a good hand, it must be light,
gentle, and firm.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
A light hand is one which never feels the contact
of the bit with the bars.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get a leg
up.
~Dave Weinbaum
There are times when you can trust a horse, times
when you can't, and times when you have to.
A good horse and a good rider are only so in
mutual trust.
~
He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off
in all directions. (Ever done that?)
~Stephen Leacock
You've got to control yourself
before you kin control your horse.
The horse will leap over trenches,
will jump out of them, will do anything
else, provided one grants him praise and respite after his accomplishment.
~Xenophon
Friendship and Philosophy top
The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a
man.
~Winston Churchill
All I pay my physiatrist is cost of feed and hay,
and he'll listen to me any day!
Show me your horse and I will tell you what you
are.
~Old English Saying
There is no secret closer than what passes between
a man and his horse.
~RS Surtees
Your horse loves you; not for your looks, but for
your love!
He knows when you're happy
He knows when you're comfortable
He knows when you're confident
And he ALWAYS knows when you have carrots
~unknown
My horses are my friends, not my slaves.
~Reiner Klimke
For horses can educate through
first hand, subjective, personal experiences, unlike human tutors, teachers,
and professors can ever do. Horses can build character, not merely urge one to
improve on it. Horses forge the mind, the character, the emotions and inner
lives of humans. People can talk to one another about all these things and
remain distanced and lonesome. In partnership with a horse, one is seldom
lacking for thought, emotion and inspiration. One is always attended by a great
companion.
~Charles de Kunffy
I will not change my horse with any that treads
but on four pasterns...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 hoofs is more
musical than the pipe of Hermes...When bestride him I soar, I am a hawk...
~ William Shakespeare
An instinct sympathy which makes the horse the
master one heart, one pulse, one understanding love- is never made, but born.
~George Agnew Chamberlain
Courage, wisdom born of insight and humility,
empathy born of compassion and love, all can be bequethed by a horse to his
rider.
~Charles de Kunffy
If your horse doesn't care, you shouldn't either
~Linsy Lee
It is wonderful when one is out with these
animals, how attached they become. There are times when I would walk up to my
horse, that he would nicker in a low tone and ruh his nose against me in a very
knowing manner.
~HS Young
A Horseman should know neither
fear, nor anger...
~James Rarey
They say that 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.
~Ben Johnson
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.
~Edward Plantagenet
We have almost forgotten how strange a thing it is
that so huge and powerful and intelligent an animal as a horse should allow
another, and far more feeble animal to ride upon it's back.
~Peter Gray
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.
~Gerald Raferty
Scores, hundreds of horses are wandering around,
gathering into herds and into twos and threes, lost, exhausted, bony, but still
alive where they have been able to wrench themselves free from a team whose
other horses have been killed; some, like our horse are still in harness, or
dragging a shaft between them, and there are wounded horses...the undecorated,
unnamed heroes of the battle who for a hundred , two hundred miles have hauled
this artillery, now dead and drowning in the swamp...
~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Look back at our struggle for freedom,
Trace our present day's strength to it's source;
And you'll find that man's pathway to glory
Is strewn with the bones of the horse.
~Anonymous
In grateful and reverent memory of the Empire's
horses (some 375,000) who fell in the Great War(1914-1918). Most obediently,
and often most painfully, they died.
~Memorial at Church of St. Jude, London
Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to
high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear.
Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.
~Pam Brown
The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger
is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collar bone and incredible
contusions-'it wasn't Jezebel’s fault, Dad.'
~Pam Brown
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. (As one with nine children, I can attest to this!)
~Samantha Armstrong
Horses do change, you know; a lot of the...ponies
really give the able-bodies grooms a hard time, but if you put a disabled child
or adult on their back they're as gentle as lambs. I don't know what it is:
they seem to sense something.
~Jackie Croome
To be loved by a horse or any animal, should fill
us with awe-for we have not deserved it.
~Marion C Garretty
We be of one blood, ye and I...
~Rudyard Kipling
A Dog looks up to a man,
A cat looks down on a man,
But a patient horse looks a man in the eye and sees him as an equal
There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the
horses have most of it.
~ Anonymous
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a
shoe a horse was lost,
for want of a horse a rider was lost, for want of a rider a army was lost,
for want of an army a battle was lost, for want of a battle the war was
lost, for want of the war the kingdom was lost, and all for the want of a
little horseshoe nail.
~Benjamin Franklin
If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong
question, or asked the question wrong.
~Pat Parelli
...there's nothin' in life that's worth doin', if it
cain't be done from a horse...
~
Red Steagall- Born to this Land
Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb.
~
Will Rogers
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http://www.qnet.com/~sixwranch/quotes.htm
http://www.animalforum.com/horsequote.htm
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