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As a fond mother, when the day is o’er,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to be led
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.
-Pat Parelli
Horses leave hoofprints on your heart.
-Unknown
The wind of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears
- Old Arabian Proverb
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
-Sherwood Anderson
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
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.
-Pam Brown
He doth nothing but talk of his horse.
-William Shakespeare
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
-Blaise Pascal
Later you hear it wander the dark house
Like a mother who rises at night to seek a childhood picture;
Or it goes to the backyard and stands
like an old horse cold in the pasture.
-Robert Penn Warren
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