Horse Quotes

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

He never gave up. And he does that for us

Home is where my horse is.

And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.

You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here

When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.

Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids.

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

What are the origins of dressage? Did just, one day, some young horse say to his dad, 'Dad, I don't want to charge into battle...I just wanna dance'?

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

May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.

The horse needs to respect you, but sometimes people confuse respect & fear. And they're not the same at all.

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Continue to spur a running horse.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it

Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.

I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.

There are no problem horses, only problem riders.

A lot of times, rather than helping people with horse problems, I'm helping horses with people problems.

It is a mistake to keep the horse on the bit for too long. He must be relaxed at the walk on the long rein regularly and afterwards he must be carefully put back together again.

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.

I'm the type that makes attempt after attempt and moves forward like a wild horse.

A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.

As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.

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 then a loan.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.

Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen

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.

A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.

Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.