"When God created the horse, he said to the magnificent creature: I have made thee as no other. All the treasures of the earth shall lie between thy eyes. Thou shalt cast thy enemies between thy hooves, but thou shalt carry my friends upon they back. Thy saddle shall be the seat of prayers to me. And though fly without any wings, and conquer without any sword." -The Koran Horse Prayer
"A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! " - Shakespeare
"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." Winston Churchill
"God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses."
R.B. Cunningham Graham
"When I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them."
Monica Dickens, "Talking of Horses..."
"A horse gallops with its lungs, perseveres with its heart, and wins with its character". ~ Tessio
"They say that 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."
"Explorata: Illiteratus Princeps"
(MyToby)
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears."
An Arabian proverb
"There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse."
Robert Smith Surtees
"...the Lord looked down on a Sunday morning and saw that something was missing - something that represented His patience, His understanding, His love, His everything, indeed all that was good - and He created the horse." Franz Mairinger:- From the book: "Horses Are Made To Be Horses"
A Dog looks up to a man,
A cat looks down on a man,
But a patient horse looks a man in the eye and sees him as an equal.
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streetsand scare the horses."
"Victor Hugo
"Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances ...
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, D.H. Lawrence
"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;" - William Shakespeare
"We have almost forgotten how strange a thing it is that so huge and powerful and intelligent an animal as a horse should allow another, and far more feeble animal, to ride upon its back." Peter Gray
"O for a horse with wings! "~ William Shakespeare
I've spent most of my life riding horses. The rest I've just wasted. ~ Anonymous
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