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Four things greater than all things are,
Women and Horses and Power and War
-Rudyard Kipling, "The Ballad of the King's Jest"
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
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.
-Author Unknown
Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark.
-Attributed to the Claddaugh Gypsies of Galway
Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.
-Author Unknown
If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle.
-Rita Mae Brown
In my opinion, a horse is the animal to have. Eleven-hundred pounds of raw muscle, power, grace, and sweat between your legs - it's something you just can't get from a pet hamster.
-Author Unknown
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
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.
-Author Unknown
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
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