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He who said he made a small fortune in the horse business
Probably started out with a large fortune!  
 Unknown

The horse is God's gift to man.
Arabian Proverb

To be loved by a horse, 
or by any animal, should fill us with awe-
for we have not deserved it.
Marion Garretty

A horse's eye disquiets me: 
it has an expression of alarm that may 
at any moment be translated into action.
E.V.Lucas

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.
Anonymous

A little neglect may breed mischief...
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...
-Benjamin Franklin

He flung himself on his horse and rode off madly in all directions.
Stephan Leacock

Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are.
Old English Saying

It is not enough for a man to know how to ride;
 he must know how to fall.
Mexican Proverb

Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter.
 It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark.
Gypsy saying

To learn all that a horse could teach, was a world of knowledge,
 but only a beginning. .. .Look into a horses eye
 and you instantly know if you can trust him.
Mary O'Hara

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.
Duke of Edinburgh

A horse is dangerous at both ends 
and uncomfortable in the middle.
Ian Flemming

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, 
but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
Mark Twain

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence,
 something that makes you feel good.
 Perhaps it is the risk, the gamble
. In any event it's a thing I need.
William Faulkner

No ride is ever the last one.
 No horse is ever the last one you will have.
 Somehow there will always be other horses,
 other places to ride them.
-Monica Dickens

A horse gallops with his lung,
Peserveres with his heart,
and wins with his character
Tesio

Horse, thou art truly a creature without equal,
 for thou fliest without wings and 
conquerest without sword.
The Koran

...But why discourse upon the Virtues of the Horse?
They are too numerous to tell save when you have a Horse to Sell.
Josh Billings

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.
Stephen Leacock

And God took a handful 
of southerly wind, blew his breath upon it, 
and created the horse. 
Bedouin legend.

My dear, I don't care what they do,
  so long as they don't do it in the
streets and frighten the horses.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell

So did this horse excel a common one
In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone...
What a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
William Shakespeare

Thou must learn the thoughts of the noble horse
Whom thou wouldst ride.
Be not indiscreet in thy demands,
Nor require him to perform indiscreetly.
Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe

A horse is worth more than riches.
Spanish Proverb

A canter is the cure for every evil.
Benjamin Disrael

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.
C.W.Anderson

If training has not made a horse more beautiful, nobler in carriage,
 more attentive in his behavior, revealing pleasure in his own accomplishment...then he has not truly been schooled in dressage.
Col. Handler

Sir, I would horsewhip you if I had a horse.
Groucho Marx

He doth nothing but talk of his horse.
William Shakespeare

There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.
Will Rogers

When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.
Roy Rogers

Horses and dogs have been man's most intimate and faithful companions since the dawn of history, but the horse has certainly
 been the most useful. In sport, agriculture, transport and warfare,
 the horse has contributed more to human pleasure, ambition
 and progress than any other animal.
Prince Philip

His tail is a trailing black cloud. 
His ears are the crescent moon.
 He has the power to see both day and night,
 for the big stars that sparkle are his eyes.
 From his nostrils come bolts of lightning.”
Walter Farley

Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground.
-unknown

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
Helen Thompson

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 the irons as we flung the saddles over their backs - little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of the memory.
Wynfors Vaughan

Where in this world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, beauty without 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 quick, nothing more patient..."
Robert Duncan

Where ever man has left his footprint in his long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we will find the hoofprint of a horse beside it.
John Trotwood Moore

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.
P. Brown

I think that if I become a horseman, I shall be a man on wings.
Xenophon

The sun it was, ye glittering gods, ye took to make a horse.
Dirga-Tamas

The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest,
 most courageous, and certainly the most perverse and
 infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated.
Anne McCaffrey 

Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances . . . 
The horse, the horse!
 The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action . . ."
D.H. Lawrence

Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them 
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth.
William Shakespeare

The line between brilliance and explosion is always fine,
 but it is the place where genius always thrives.
Robert Dover

Never let his fire die out, but kindle it with words.
 Let him know that you are honored to be carried
 along on his strong shoulders and swift feet.
Carl Raswan

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

Weave for the mighty chestnut
A tributary crown
Of autumn flowers, the brightest then
When autumn leaves are brown
Hang up his bridle on the wall,
His saddle on the tree,
Till time shall bring some racing king
Worthy to wear as he!
William Nack

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...
he is pure air and fire..
.the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like the
 bidding of a monarch 
and his countenance enforces homage.
Williams Shakespeare

God forbid that I should go to any heaven where there are no horses.
R.B. Cunningham-Grahm

No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.
Winston Churchill

Such Horses are the jewels of the horseman's  hands and thighs, 
They go by the word and hardly need the rein
Stephen Vincent Benet

“When Allah created the horse, he said to the wind, 
‘I will create a creature to proceed thee.’ "
Marguerite Henry

A lot of what's about horses is nuts and bolts --
If the rider's nuts, the horse bolts.
The Horse Whisperer

To many, the words love, hope, and dreams
 are synonymous with horses.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A kingdom without horses was not a kingdom,
 and a king without horses was not a king.
Stan Steiner

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them
 if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams

The sunshine's golden gleam is thrown,
On sorrel, chestnut, bay and roan.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man on a horse is spiritually
 as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.
John Steinbeck

You will find it is always easier to walk 
if there is a horse between your legs.
Tex Bix Bender

All in green went my love riding
On a great horse of gold into the silver dawn
e.e. cummings

One white foot - buy him;
Two white feet - try him;
Three white feet - look well about him;
Four white feet - go without him.
Old English rhyme

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 its back."
Peter Gray

A horse should be treated like a gentleman.
Leland Stanford (1824-1893)

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.
Yiddish Proverb

Anyone who is concerned about his dignity
 would be well advised to keep away from horses.
Duke of Edinburgh

There is something about the outside of a horse
 that is good for the inside of a man.
Sir Winston Churchill

Horses leave hoofprints on your heart. 
 Unknown

Honor lies in the mane of a horse.    
Herman Melville

The substitution of the internal combustion engine
 for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone
 in the progress of mankind. 
Sir Winston Churchill

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

...through his mane and tail the high wind sings,
Fanning the hairs, who wave like feathered wings."
William Shakespeare

Of all Creatures God made at the Creation, there is none except man more excellent, or so much to be respected as a Horse.
Bedouin Legend

Some people have animal eyes - bears' eyes, cats' eyes, pigs' eyes,
  but horses have human eyes and I love horses better than people.
Jose Garcia Villa

Never approach a bull from the front,
 a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction."
Cowboy wisdom

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
Robert Smith Surtees

Sing, riding's a joy!  For me I ride.
Robert Browning

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do.
Raymund Nash

Learning dressage takes two lifetimes -- yours ... and your horse's.
unknown

A good horse makes short miles. 
George Elliot

Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.
 Unknown

Twilight gathers and ends our play,
Hoofs in the distance echo away;
Shadows into the dusk we pass...
Come what may, we have had our day
Over the grass.
Will H. Ogilvie

God first made Man. 
 He thought better of it and made Woman. 
When He got time He made the Horse, 
which has the courage and spirit of Man 
and the beauty and grace of Woman.
Brazilian saying

What a piece of work is a horse! How noble in reason!
 How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how
 like a man! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!
James Agate

...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

Show me your horse and I will tell you what you are. 
Old English Saying

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
Helen Thomson

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."
-William Shakespeare

Horses change lives.
 They give our young people
 confidence and self-esteem.
 They provide peace and tranquillity
 to troubled souls-they give us hope!"
--Toni Robinson

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. 
I only owe it to thehorse’s good nature
 that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein

Certain comic effects can be achieved
 by a brand-new rider, especially a man who dresses
 like a fashion model and rides like a tailor.
-C.J.J. Mullen

Hast 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.
-JOB 39: 19-22

Half the failures in life result from pulling
in one's horse when it is leaping.
-Unknown

Don't be the rider who gallops all night
and never sees the horse that is beneath him
-Jelaluddin Rumi