Do you LOVE horses?
My Favorite Horse Quotes:
1. All horses deserve, at least once in their lives, to be loved by a little girl.
2. Coffee, Chocolate, Cowboys… some things are just better rich.
– Original source unknown
3. It is the difficult horses that have the most to give you.
– Lendon Gray
4. Attributed to Lady Thornicroft after the hunt … when a saboteur asked her why the horse was so hot and sweated up; “If I had you between my legs for two and a half hours you dear sir, you would be equally as hot and sweaty.”
5. Of all creatures God made at the Creation, there is none more excellent, or so much to be respected as a horse.
– Bedouin Legend
6. You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
– Dagobert D. Runes
7. Every time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.
– Gordon Wright
8. If anybody expects to calm a horse down by tiring him out with riding swiftly and far, his supposition is the reverse of the truth.
– Xenophon
9. Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.
– Danish Proverb
10. One man’s wrong lead is another man’s counter-canter.
– S.D. Price
11. Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management.
– George H. Morris, The American Jumping Style
12. What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age.
– French Proverb
13. One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
– Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
14. Words are as beautiful as wild horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral.
– Ted Berkman, The Christian Science Monitor
15. If you are a rider, the number one thing to do is … marry money!
– Anonymous
16. There are only two emotions that belong in the saddle; one is a sense
of humor and the other is patience. – John Lyons
17. How to ride a horse:
Step One – Mount the horse.
Step Two – Stay mounted …
18. If a horse stands on you it’s because you’re in the way.
20. A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.
21. Horse… If God made anything more beautiful he kept it for himself!
22. Horses are the dolphins of the plains, the spirits of the wind; yet we sit astride them for the sake of being well-groomed, whereas they could have all the desire in the world to bolt, but instead, they adjust their speed and grace, only to please us, never to displease.
– Lauren Salerno
23. A polo handicap is a person’s ticket to the world.
– Sir Winston Churchill
24. By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
– Emir Abd-el-Kader
25. There on the tips of fair fresh flowers feedeth he; How joyous is his neigh, there in the midst of sacred pollen hidden all hidden he; how joyous is his neigh.
– Navajo Song
26. …virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock… I have given thee the power of flight without wings.
– The Koran
27. I live in a house but my home is in the stable
28. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
– Confucious
29. A horse doesn’t care how much you know until he knows how much you care.
– Pat Parelli
30. A mule is just like a horse, but even more so.
31. The love for a horse is just as complicated as the love for another human being…If you never love a horse, you will never understand.
32. A horse is like a best friend. They’re always there to nuzzle you and make your life a better place.
33. Nothing moves me more than when on the way to fetching in my mare in the morning than the sound of her neighing to me as I open the gate.
34. A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can read distinctly; and yet there are some people who, as soon as they get on a young horse, entirely undressed and untaught, fancy that by beating and spurring they will make him a dressed horse in one morning only. I would fain ask such stupid people whether by beating a boy they would teach him to read without first showing him the alphabet? Sure they would beat him to death before they would make
him read.
– Reproduced from The Man Who Listens to Horses – Original source unknown
35. A good rider can hear his horse speak to him. A great rider can hear his horse whisper. But a bad rider won’t hear his horse even if it screams at him!
36. A horse is an angel without wings.
37. Just because you can jump a fence going north doesn’t mean you can jump in going south.
38. The Breath of Paradise is that which blows between the ears of a horse.
– Arabic Quotation
39. Who needs men when you have a horse?..oh..wait..someone’s gotta do the paying!
40. Life is like a wild horse. You ride it or it rides you.
41. The only constant thing in life is change, and things can change rapidly when you’re dealing with horses.
42. I’m in a transitional relationship with my saddle!
43. I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of the battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright but is defined by one’s actions.
– Kevin Costner in “Robin Hood, Prince Of Thieves”
44. Boyfriends come and go, but horses are forever.
45. 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.
46. When your horse bolts for 10 minutes flat, you know to get off and give up. The question is, how?
– Annarose Robinson
47. Equestrian activity teaches young ladies to cope with large, friendly, but dumb creatures – the ideal training for marriage.
48. Love is.. paying a £500 vet bill for a horse worth £50.
49. If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.
50. The cowgirl’s bumper sticker: Save a horse, ride a cowboy!!!
51. Our hoofbeats were many, but our hearts beat as one.
52. There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom… their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
– Schopenhauer
53. When you fall off your horse, usually what’s most hurt is your pride.
54. Don’t look at a horse as an animal, look as if the horse is a real person. Because a horse can tell the difference.
55. 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.
– William Faulkner, National Observer, February 3, 1964
56. You never get the pleasure of owning a horse…
57. I whisper to my horse, but he never listens!
58. Correction does much for the horse, but encouragement does more.
59. Some are slaves on the ground but are free on a horse.
60. You can love a horse and ride it and a horse can love you and squash you.
61. Grooming: the process by which the dirt on the horse is transferred to the groom
62. A man of kindness to his horse, is kind. But brutal actions show a brutal mind. He was designed thy servant, not thy drudge. Remember his creator is thy judge.
63. You can lead your horse to water, but you can’t stop him pulling you away!!!
64. My horse is very quick. Sometimes he’s so quick he leaves me behind.
65. My horse is security conscience… he always likes to bolt the stable door when I leave.
66. The hardest thing about learning to ride is the ground!
67. The Joy of horses is not the riding, jumping, racing, showing, or grooming, but of owning!!!
68. When in doubt, leave one stride out!
69. Been There… Jumped That!
70. A polo pony is like a motorbike with a mind of its own weighing half a ton.
71. A western horse has guts and commitment, an English horse has grace and elegance, but my horse has it all!
72. When your horse follows you without being asked when he rubs his head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle down your spine you know you are loved…do you love him back?
73. Whinnying is everything.
74. Leave a horse’s gate unfastened and he’ll be knocking on your window in the night.
75. Wild oats aren’t meant for sowing – but they make a nice trail snack.
76. Ask not what your horse can do for you – Ask what you can do for your horse.
77. May the horse be with you.
78. In training horses, one trains himself
– Antoine De Pluvinet
79. A dog may be a man’s best friend…But the horse wrote history.
80. “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink,” is an old saying that is not exactly true because anybody that’s ever been around horses would know if the horse didn’t want to go to water then it wouldn’t!!
81. It excites me that no matter how much machinery replaces the horse, the work it can do is still measured in horsepower…..even in this space age. And although a riding horse often weighs half a ton, and a big drafter a full ton either can be led about by a piece of string if he has been wisely trained. This to me is a constant source of wonder, and challenge.
– Marguret Henry
82.) Gott my horse, got my dog, don’t need any cowboy!
83.) Do not underestimate a horse’s pride, or he will dent yours.
84.) He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse.
– Anna Sewell
85. Horses give us the wings we lack.
86. When to see a horse you think low intelligence, to see a man high intelligence, but to mix to make a friendship you seem to get greater intelligence.
87. Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.
– Pam Brown
88. Riding a Shire is like a moving sofa!!!
89.) As the wind swept over the saddle, it turned to a mixture of bright colors and painted the world.
– Ronan Warriors
90. And on the seventh day … god went riding!
91. Jumping is just dressage with speed bumps!
92. Never drink downstream from your horse!
93. When riding a horse we leave our fear, troubles, and sadness behind on the ground.
– Juli Carlson
94. Jumping: It’s just doing flat-work in the air.
95. Horse sense – something that horses have that stops them from betting on humans.
96. Good horses make short miles.
97. There is nothing like a rattling ride for curing melancholy!
– Pared
98. People talk about size, shape, quarters, blood, bone, muscle, but for my part, give me a hunter with brains: he has to take care of the biggest fool of the two and think for both.
99. Whoever said that money cannot buy happiness didn’t know where to buy a horse.
100. Riding is not a sport, it is a passion. If you do not share the passion, you do not know the sport, and therefore are wasting your time.
101. Heels down and head up, knees down and Heart up, Ankles close to your horse’s side, elbows close to your own.
102. A horse is like a violin, first, it must be tuned, and when tuned it must be accurately played.
103. Riders who force their horses by the use of the whip only increase their fear for they then associate the pain with the things that frighten them.
-Xenophon
The last one is the one I love the most!
104. Bread may feed my body, but my horse feeds my soul.
– Arabian Poet
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