Horse Related Quotations

"Why is it that women will ignore homicidal tendencies in a horse, but will be furious at a man for leaving the toilet seat up?"

"Trust no man in whose eyes you do not see yourself reflected as an equal."

"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The question is not can they REASON, nor can they TALK, but can they SUFFER?"
--Jeremy Bentham

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway."
--John Wayne

"To ride or not to ride...What a stupid question!"

"Are you gonna cowboy up or just lay there and bleed?"

"On the back of a horse I felt whole, complete, connected to that vital place in the very center of me . . . and the chaos within me found balance."
--Elena Estes

"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."

"Save a horse, ride a cowboy."

"So here we all are, sucking our horses up into our twats, sticking our tits out to Jesus, and beaming lasers through our belly buttons........And people say dressage isn't funny."
--fhotd board member

"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man."
--Winston Churchill

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."
--W. C. Fields

"Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground."

"Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse', but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses."
--C. W. Anderson

"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

"A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open."
--Gerald Raferty

"It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!"
--Nicholas Evans

"A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words."
--Beryl Markham

"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

"A canter is a cure for every evil."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle."
--Rita Mae Brown

"When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age, you splatter."
--Roy Rogers

"In riding a horse we borrow freedom."
--Helen Thomson

"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

"Feeling down? Saddle up."

"God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses."
--R. B. Cunninghame Graham

"Even an E-type Jaguar looks merely flash beside a really smart pony and trap."
--Marion C. Garretty

"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

"They say princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship. The reason is the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom."
--Ben Jonson

"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

"I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."
--J. D. Salinger

"Gipsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark."

"A woman needs two animals - the horse of her dreams and a jackass to pay for it."

"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 Armstrong

"My horses are my competition partners. I want them to be intune with me, have a connection to me, and be sharp to me. Like having a butt groove in the couch. I dont want someone messing up my groove, I worked hard to get it where I want it."
--shiggins, fhotd message board

"When I hear someone talking about a horse or cow being stupid, I figure it's a sure sign that animal has outfoxed them."
--Tom Dorrance

"While it is a noble thing to preserve a breed's origins, preservation should not come at the expense of quality."
--terryn, fhotd message board

"I want to live until I can't ride anymore and then I'll be happy to die."
--GitanosMummy, fhotd message board

"Arabs are known for 'teleporting'. You somehow end up on the ground 30 feet away from where you were with the horse standing next to you."
--crazyhorseer, fhotd message board