Potent Quotables
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The hooves of horses!
Oh! witching and sweet
Is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet;
No whisper of lover, no trilling of bird,
Can stir me as much as hooves of horses
Have stirred.
-Will H. Ogilvie107111rev10horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it.
-John Mooredunesdesertarabian horsearabianssunsetridershorse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
A horse is a thing of such beauty...none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor."
-Xenophonlusitanoblack and whitehorseequine photographyhorse photographyhorse quotationslynne glazer
It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped.
-Author Unknownmulesharnesstonguehorse humorequine photographyhorse photographyhorse quotationslynne glazer
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 Nackchestnut horsesracehorsesdel marequine photographyhorse photographyhorse quotationslynne glazer
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 Raswan111004horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
All in green went my love riding
On a great horse of gold into the silver dawn
-e.e. cummings194849horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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. Handlervnt205447horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
Four things greater than all things are,
Women and Horses and Power and War
-Rudyard Kipling, "The Ballad of the King's Jest"194773horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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'Hara206448horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Unknown157751horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark.
-Attributed to the Claddaugh Gypsies of Galway82886horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.
-Author Unknown206257horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle.
-Rita Mae Brown205706horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Unknown191674horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Leacock191911horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Unknown198088horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Brownhorse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
...I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound. -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye186748horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
-Dale Carnegie186660horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
Somewhere in time's own space
There must be some sweet pastured place
Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow
Some paradise where horses go,
For by the love that guides my pen
I know great horses live again.
-Stanley Harrison166621horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
A canter is a cure for every evil.
-Benjamin Disraelilynneamycristy164743horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.
-Sharon Ralls Lemon168092horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Rogers167273horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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. Ogilvie167673horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Duncan176230horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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.
-William Shakespearelynnejose165825horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a stable.
-Samantha Armstronglynnetiara167883horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Philip150896horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of
the house.
-Maya Patel90104horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 saying107623horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.
-Mexican Proverb107675horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
To many, the words love, hope, and dreams are synonymous with horses.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes190086horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Agate190240horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
Learning dressage takes two lifetimes -- yours--and your horse's.
-unknown157178horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Legend92110horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
Horses are uncomfortable in the middle and dangerous at both ends.
-attributed to Christopher Stone & Ian Fleming61694horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Longfellow28833horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.
-Pat Parelli73576horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
Horses leave hoofprints on your heart.
-Unknown91664horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
The wind of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears
- Old Arabian Proverbbordersighorse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Anderson14620horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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. Ogilvie48119horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
Nothing is more sacred as the bond between a horse and a rider. No other creature can ever become so emotionally close to a human as a horse. When a horse dies, the memory lives on, because an enormous part of his owner's heart, soul, and the very existence dies also.
-Stephanie M ThornArabianRobieTevisTevis CupWSTFenduranceendurance ridingvet invetting254071horse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
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 Brownhorse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer
He doth nothing but talk of his horse.
-William Shakespearehorse photographyhorse quotationsequine photographylynne glazer