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Kit Houghton
There is something about the outside
of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. ~Winston Churchill
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 Moore
For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was
lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain
by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1758
If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question
wrong. ~Pat Parelli
It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
Four things greater than all things are, -
Women and Horses and Power and War.
~Rudyard Kipling, "The Ballad
of the King's Jest"
A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on
foot. ~John Steinbeck
The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
A thousand horse and none to ride! -
With flowing tail, and flying mane,
Wide nostrils never stretched by pain,
Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein,
And feet that iron never shod,
And flanks unscarred by spur or rod,
A thousand horse, the wild, the free,
Like waves that follow o'er the sea,
Came thickly thundering on,...
~Lord Byron, XVII, Mazeppa, 1818
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill
The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. ~Arabian Proverb
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse
to death. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don
Quixote
I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at
least human, for God's sake. ~J.D.
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat
of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth
and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his
rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call
beasts. ~William Shakespeare, Henry
V
Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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. Ogilvie
O! for a horse with wings! ~William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
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