The Best Horse Quotes
Top 10 Horses Quotes
“You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a Horse going broke betting on people.” – Will Rogers
“You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.” – Charles M. Russell
“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him participate in synchronized diving.” – Cuthbert Soup
“Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.” – Walter Farley
“Working horses is a little like being married. Sometimes you need to adjust and change your plan.”
“Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home.” – Steven Spielberg
“Wherever man has left his footprints in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we find the hoofprint of a horse beside it.” – John Trotwood Moore
“Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? Here where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined” – Ronald Duncan
“Whenever you observe a horse closely, you feel as if a hum being sitting inside were making fun of you.” – Elias Canetti
“When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.” – Winston Churchill
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“There is no happiness like the pounding of so many horses into one. I imagine I hear the horses laugh. I think it every time. I think that running is the way a horse may laugh out loud. When I am older I will believe that following in their wake has filled me with the inconsolable joy of animals.” – Mark Spragg
“There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse.” – Missy Lyons
“There is much we can learn from a friend who happens to be a horse.” – Aleksandra Layland
“There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.” – Herman Melville
“There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse’s hooves: If one of the horse’s hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means that the sculptor was very, very clever. Five legs in the air mean that there’s probably at least one other horse standing behind the horse you’re looking at, and the rider lying on the ground with his horse lying on top of him with all four legs in the air means that the rider was either a very incompetent horseman or owned a very bad-tempered horse.” – Terry Pratchett
“There are only two emotions that belong in the saddle; one is a sense of humor and the other is patience.” – John Lyons
“There are many wonderful places in the world, but one of my favorite places is on the back of my horse.” – Rolf Kopfle
“There are many skills and maneuvers that people tend to classify as either Western or English. But the truth is horses are horses – their balance is the same, the way they move and the way in which the rider uses the aids for cueing are the same. The appearance of your clothes and tack doesn’t really change that.” – Julie Goodnight
“Stay away from a horse long enough and you’ll start tapping your fingers to the beat of a trot.”
“Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That’s why so many cowboys fancied themselves, Philosophers.” – Charles Marion Russell
“Some horses will test you, some will teach you, and some will bring out the best in you.”
“Slippery-smooth rhythmic motion, absolute single-minded purpose, motion for the pleasure of motion itself. It was terrible in its beauty, the flight of the horse.” – Larry Niven
“should allow another, and far more feeble animal, to ride upon its back.” – Peter Gray
“The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.” – —Winston Churchill
“The right to buck off a human being is one of the universal rights of horses” – Lara Prior-Palmer
“The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.” – Gabriel Heatter
“The horse. Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing servant, yet never a slave.” – Ronald Duncan
“The horse, with beauty unsurpassed, strength immeasurable and grace unlike any other, still remains humble enough to carry a man upon his back.” – Amber Senti
“The horse, a creature that lives in a herd, reminds us that we are not alone and that we should not alienate others.” – Lawren Leo
“The horse you get off is not the same as the horse you got on. It is your job as a rider to ensure that as often as possible, the change is for the better.”
“The horse was as black as midnight and as skittish as a phantom.” – Roseanna M. White
“The horse moved like a dancer, which is not surprising. A horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.” – Mark Helprin
“The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.” – Paul Mellon
“The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and freedom.” – Sharon Ralls Lemon
“The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom.”
“The essence of Horse Spirit is freedom. It is a noble and resilient force, with limitless energy at its core.” – Lawren Leo
“The earth would be nothing without sand, the same way a man would be nothing without a horse.”
“A horse is wonderful by definition.” – Piers Anthony
“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 horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.” – Ian Flemming
“A horse gallops with his lungs perseveres with his heart and wins with his character.” – Frederico Tesio
“A horse doesn’t care how much you know until he knows how much you care. Put your hand on your horse and your heart in your hand.” – Pat Parelli
“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
“A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A large and liquid eye… the swirl of dust around pounding hooves… these, then, are the images that move us.”
“A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.” – Prince Philip
“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.” – Ovid
“Horses make a landscape look beautiful.” – Alice Walker
“Horses lend us the wings we lack.” – Pam Brown
“Horses know this more than most: The greatest curse of any animal is to be worth money to men.” – Shaun Tan
“Horses get anxious when their expectations are not met.” – Wendy Williams
“Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Horses don’t speak, but they communicate through body language. If you look very closely, you’ll find out your horse has been trying to talk to you every day.” – Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum
“Horses do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
“Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls, they give us hope.” – Toni Robinson
“Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.” – Monty Roberts
“Horses are “mindful creatures.” When we watch them closely, and we are not endowed with a tin ear, we can hear them thinking. – “I am young and have no dog” – Erik Pevernagie
“Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world.” – Josephine Demott Robinson
“Horsemanship is the art of mastering our own movements, thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Not the horses.” – Mark Rashid
“Horse thou art truly a creature, for thou fliest without wings and conquest without a sword.”
“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.” – W.C Fields
Funny Horses Quotes
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“Your seat is a verb, and your reins are adjectives to add beauty and shape.”
“You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.”
“When you take care of your horse, your horse takes care of you. You can say that about no other creature on the planet.”
“When they hear hooves they look for zebras instead of horses.”
“When the Almighty put hoofs on the wind and a bridle on the lightning, He called it a horse.”
“When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it’s a sure sign that the animal has somehow outfoxed them.” – Tom Dorrance
“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.” – William Shakespeare
“When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, ‘I want to make a creature of you. Condense.’ And the Wind condensed.” – Emir Abd-el-Kader
“When a horse offers their face to you, they’re interested in what you are, what you’re doing. They’re paying attention.”
“When a horse greets you with a nicker and regards you with a large and liquid eye, the question of where you want to be has been answered.”
“What kind of a horse?” “A miraculous kind of horse” – Steven Spielberg
“We will never have to tell our horse that we are sad, happy, confident, angry, or relaxed. He already knows – long before we do.”
“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
“To understand the soul of a horse is the closest human beings can come to knowing perfection.”
“To look into the eye of a horse is to see a reflection of yourself that you might’ve forgotten. No grief was big enough not to be washed clean in your horse’s eye.” – Gillian Mears
“Through his mane and tail, the high wind sings, fanning the hairs who wave like feathered wings.” – William Shakespeare
“Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.” – Théophile Gautier
“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 Johnson
“They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.” – Kate Millett
“There’s something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” – Winston Churchill
“There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it’s the risk, the gamble. In any event, it’s a thing I need.” – William Faulkner
“There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.” – Robert Smith Surtees
“On the back of a horse you will find Paradise.” – Stella A. Walker
“On horseback, you feel as if you’re moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.” – Walter Moers
“Of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind, the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless.” – Bret Harte
“Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.” – Samuel Johnson
“Nothing is permanent, I tell myself over and over. Especially not a horse.” – Mara Dabrishus
“Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care. I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not wish to see that hard-charging bag of bones again unless it is in my soup.” – Tamora Pierce
“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
“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 treats.”
“He has galloped through young girls’ dreams, added richness to grown women’s lives, and served men in war and strife.” – Toni Robinson
“Grooming: the process by which the dirt on the horse is transferred to the groom.”
“Great dressage demands more than skill; it engages a rider’s inner wisdom and his ability to communicate with an amount in the silent language of horsemanship.” – Elizabeth Letts
“God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses.” – R.B. Cunningham Graham
“Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Galloping is trust and honesty between horse and rider and pure, amazing energy.” – Ella West
“Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and a war.” – Rudyard Kipling
“No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.” – Herman Melville
“A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adult treasure.” – Rebecca Carroll
“The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears.” – Arabian Proverb
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier
“The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears.” – Arabian Proverb
“with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom.” – Sharon Ralls Lemon
Short Horses Quotes
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“Ride More. Worry Less…”
“A horse is as mighty as its rider.” – Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum
“A horse is an angel without wings.”
“A horse in the wind – a perfect symphony.”
“A good horse should be seldom spurred.” – Thomas Fuller
“A good horse makes short miles.” – George Eliot
“A dog may be man’s best friend…but the horse wrote history.”
“A canter is a cure for every evil” – Benjamin Disraeli
“A horse is worth more than riches.” – Spanish Proverb
“A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.” – Thomas Fuller
“A man in a passion rides a mad horse.” – Benjamin Franklin
“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” – William Shakespeare
“A woman never looks better than on horseback.” – Jane Austen
“Ask me to show you poetry in motion and I will show you a horse.”
“Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.” – Danish Proverb
“Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
“Employers are like horses — they require management.” – P.G. Wodehouse
“Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them!”
“For one to fly, one needs only to take the reins.” – Melissa James
“Good attitude is most important. Good talent is second.” – George H Morris
“He doth nothing but talk of his horse.” – William Shakespeare
“Happiness does have a smell!”
“Honor lies in the mane of a horse.” – Herman Melville
“His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.” – Jerry Shulman
“Horse smell is the same the world over” – Lara Prior-Palmer
“I’d rather ride on a Mustang, than in one.” – BaileyAnn Neal
“I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.” – Linda McCartney
“If not for the horses, Piper would’ve died.” – Rick Riordan
“It is the difficult horses that have the most to give you.” – Lendon Gray
“It is best not to swap horses while crossing the river.” – Abraham Lincoln
“It doesn’t matter how good you are, it matters if you have the passion.”
“It’ll be enough for now. Don’t rush the horses.” – Alexandra Bracken
“My horses are my friends, not my slaves.” – Reiner Klimke
“No heaven can heaven be, if my horse isn’t there to welcome me.”
“The best therapist has fur & hour legs.”
“Success is letting go of fear.” – Carl Wittaker
“The horse is a reflection of the rider’s ability.” – Ray Hunt
“The horse is a mirror to your soul.” – Buck Brannaman
“The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse.”
“The world is best viewed through the ears of a horse.”
“To ride on a horse is to fly without wings.”
“To ride a horse is to ride the sky.”
“When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.” – Chloe Benjamin
“Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb.” – Will Rogers
“Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.” – Saint Augustine
“Do more of what makes you happy!”
“I live in a house, but my home is in the stable.”
Wild Horses Quotes
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“With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscarred by spur or rod, A thousand horses – the wild – the free -Like waves that follow o’er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.” – Lord Byron
“Wild horses wouldn’t draw it from you?” – Stevenson
“Wild horses don’t know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn’t go over a cliff.” – Chaka Khan
“Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.” – Francesca Lia Block
“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!” – Pablo Picasso
“I’m beginning to think even wild horses couldn’t have kept me away from you.” – Victoria Vane
“I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.” – Oscar Wilde
“I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt in his soul.” – Lynn Andrews
“By midmorning eight of the horses stood tied and the other eight were wilder than deer, scattering along the fence and bunching and running in a rising sea of dust as the day warmed, coming to reckon slowly with the remorselessness of this rendering of their fluid and collective selves into that condition of separate and helpless paralysis which seemed to be among them as a creeping plague.” – Cormac McCarthy
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.” – Virginia Woolf
“Any real, beautiful thing in this world shouldn’t be tamed or claimed or broken. It should be allowed to be, worked with, not against, appreciated. Don’t be afraid of the wild she has left. It makes her special.” – Cowboy McKennon Kelly to Cowgirl in Training Devon Brooke.” – Carly Kade
“Most horses don’t walk backward voluntarily, because what they can’t see doesn’t exist.” – Terry Pratchett
“Men were like horses, she mused dreamily. All they needed was breaking in.” – Margaret Way
“Lucky for me, all four of his hooves missed my body as they found the ground. I picked my head up, thankful I didn’t get stomped, and watched the steer runoff along the fence. Mental note: cows are not like horses. Don’t let the big brown eyes fool you.” – Brittney Joy
“It is the horse’s gift to connect us with Heaven and our own footsteps.” – Ronni Sweet
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” – Henry Ford
“If a horse comes to you in a dream, consider it an honor. For it does so of its own free will.” – Lawren Leo
“I’d rather ride on a Mustang, than in one.” – BaileyAnn Neal
Riding Horses Quotes
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“When riding a horse, we borrow freedom.” – Helen Thomson
“When riding a horse we leave our fear, troubles, and sadness behind on the ground.” – Juli Carlson
“What do riding horses give us? An escape from the world. Exercise in the fresh air. Adrenaline rushes. Healing through the bond.”
“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 Rogers
“The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn’t just that you must be agile, or that you must be good with horses, or that you must be strong and steady as the horse careens to the far end of the arena and back with you riding on its back. It was that you must hide inside your costume a little of a killer’s heart. The animal will be tender with you, and you with it, but the animal never forgets that when what it wants for survival requires your death, it will become unafraid to kill you. And so you cannot forget this, either. It is, on reflection, good training to be a courtesan. A woman of any kind.” – Alexander Chee
“Riding never gets easier. You just get better.”
“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No one can teach riding so well as a horse.” – C.S. Lewis
“It excites me that no matter how much machinery replaces the horse, the work it can do is still measured in horsepower… even in this space age. And although a riding horse often weighs half a ton, and a big drafter a full ton either can be led about by a piece of string if he has been wisely trained. This to me is a constant source of wonder, and challenge.” – Margaret Henry
“In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.” – Helen Thompson
“I have never had more pleasure than riding a horse naked at a fast gallop across an empty landscape. Riding is life. The rest is just pedestrian.” – Chloe Thurlow
“Don’t give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses. No one ever came to grief, except honorable grief, through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course, they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die” – Winston Churchill
“All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.” – Jane Smiley
“One can get in a car and see what man has made. One must get on a horse to see what God has made.”
“Around the world, your horse is often seen as a reflection of your character.”
“Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.” – Franklin P. Jones
“And wins with his character.” – Tesio
“And indeed, a horse who bears himself proudly is a thing of such beauty and astonishment that he attracts the eyes of all beholders. No one will tire of looking at him as long as he will display himself in his splendor.” – Xenophon
“And I learned this long ago, that sweet freedom can be found in the middle of a meadow, upon the back of a faithful mare. Careless and wild we both shall be, on our ride across familiar fields, with steps that blend into the earth below.” – Erin Forbes
“An old adage says that a good rider can hear his horse speak and a great rider can hear his horse whisper.” – Elizabeth Letts
“All our dreams come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“According to horses, a good friend is someone who listens, appreciates your company, and teases you, but is protective at the same time.” – Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum
“Above all, Vasya wanted her horse. She wanted his strength, his warm breath, his uncomplicated affection. Without him, she was a lost girl in a dress; on his back, she felt invincible.” – Katherine Arden
“A true horseman does not look at a horse with his eyes, he looks at his horse with his heart.”
“A stupid mule is still smarter than a good horse or a bad man.” – Ursula Vernon
“A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.”
“A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot.” – John Steinbeck
“A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.” – Monty Roberts
“A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.” – Edward Herbert
“A good rider can hear his horse speak to him. A great rider can hear his horse whisper.”
“A bad ride is much better than a good walk.” – J. Peter Grace
“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” – Adlai E. Stevenson
“It’s a lot like nuts and bolts – if the rider’s nuts, the horse bolts!” – Nicholas Evans
“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
Horses Quotes Love
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“You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.” – Pam Brown
“You and your horse. His strength and beauty. Your knowledge and patience and determination and understanding and love. That’s what fuses the two of you onto this marvelous partnership that makes you wonder, ‘What can heaven offer any better than what I have here on earth?’” – Monica Dickens
“When your horse follows you without being asked, when he rubs his head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle down your spine…you know you are loved.” – John Lyons
“To place your horse’s need for you to let him leave his failing body above your need to keep him with you – that – is the greatest and purest love.” – Cynthia Garrett
“To be content, horse people need only a horse, or, lacking that, someone else who loves horses with whom they can talk. It was always that way with my grandfather. He took me places just so we could see horses, be near them. We went to the circus and the rodeo at Madison Square Garden. We watched parades down Fifth Avenue. Finding a horse, real or imagined, was like finding a dab of magic potion that enlivened us both. Sometimes I’d tell my grandfather about all the horses in my elaborate dreams. He’d lean over, smile, and assure me that, one day, I’d have one for real. And if my grandfather, my Opa, told me something was going to come true, it always did.” – Allan J. Hamilton
“Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning – the faithful horse has been with us always.” – Elizabeth Cotton
“Those who get in the way of love’s path will be kicked by horses.” – Kyoya
“There is no other feeling in the world to compare with it if one loves a great horse. It gives a thrill that nothing else ever can. It cannot be put into words, because words cannot express it.” – Samuel Riddle
“She had felt from the beginning that horses were easier to understand than people. They made their wishes clear. They bestowed their affection without conditions. They didn’t love you for a time, then stop loving you for no apparent reason.” – Louisa Morgan
“Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.” – Alexandra Bracken
“I love the horse from hoof to head, From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said, From head to hoof and back again.” – James Whitcomb Riley
“For there is no other feeling in the world to compare with it if one loves a great horse. It gives a thrill that nothing else ever can. It cannot be put into words, because words cannot express it.” – Samuel Riddle
“Date someone who spoils you, loves you, respects you… and never questions how much you spend on your horses.”
“Before I loved horses, I had nothing to live for. Now I love horses and can’t stop seeing things to live for.”
“A lovely horse is always an experience…. It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.” – Beryl Markham
“A horse that loves and cares for a man was loved and cared for by a man!” – Emma Bullington
“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 Raftery
“…for there is no other feeling in the world to compare with it if one loves a great horse. It gives a thrill that nothing else ever can. It cannot be put into words, because words cannot express it.” – Samuel Riddle
“I call my horses ‘divine mirrors’—they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.” – Allan Hamilton
“Love is a word the English don’t use except when they talk about their horses and dogs.” – Clifford Thurlow
“In their eyes shine stars of wisdom and courage to guide men to the heavens.” – Jodie Mitchell
“In the end, we don’t know what horses can do. We only know that when, over the past thousands of years, we have asked something more of them, at least some of them have readily supplied it.” – Jane Smiley
“If your horse says “no”, you either asked the wrong question or asked the question wrong.” – Pat Parelli
“If you’re lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.” – Chris LeDoux
“If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.” – Socrates
“If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.” – Heath Ledger
“If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.” – Ian Millar
“If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.”
“If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.” – Clare Balding
“If wishes were horses, my mortal father used to say, beggars would ride.” – Holly Black
“If the horse does not enjoy his work, his rider will have no joy.” – H.H. Isenbart
“I freely admit that the best of my fun I owe it to Horse and Hound.” – Whyte Melville
“I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.” – Calamity Jane
“I felt better mounted. God gave us horses so we could run away faster.” – Mark Lawrence
“I don’t like people,” said Velvet. I only like horses.” – Enid Bagnold
“I don’t even like old cars. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.” – J.D. Salinger
“I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace.” – Abraham Lincoln
“I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we’re wearing, or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.” – Clare Balding
“I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a horse.” – John Galsworthy
“I am fond of the sound of horses in the night. The lifting of feet. Stamping. The clicking of their iron shoes against the rock. The mouth one another’s withers and rear and squeal and whirl and shuffle and cough and stand and snort. There are the combined rumblings of each individual gut. They sound larger than they are. The air tastes of horses, ripples as though come alive with their good-hearted strength and stamina.” – Mark Spragg
“Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.” – Jeannette Walls
“Closeness, friendship, affection: keeping your own horse means all these things.” – Bertrand Leclair
“By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.” – Emir Abd-El-Kader
“But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses” – Jane Smiley
“Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.” – Duke of Wellington
“At its finest, rider and horse are joined not by tack, but by trust. Each is totally reliant upon the other. Each is the selfless guardian of the other’s very well-being.”
Horses Quotes About Life
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“You occasionally see one, and it’s the thrill of a lifetime. But mostly all you ever see is a cloud of dust after they are gone. It’s their stubborn ability to survive that makes them so remarkable.” – Velma Johnston
“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.” – Winston Churchill
“It’s not a hobby, It’s a lifestyle. ”
“It isn’t at all surprising that horses figure in so many different ways in myth and story-there is such power in them beyond the physical. The prehistoric life in them seems whole and intact. Any horse you meet seems to have in it a knowing that is deeper, older, more primal than our own; they seem witnesses to something lost to the sight of humankind. There is something important about horses. See a great dark carthorse in the rain steam coming up from its back; go out to a stable in the cold dark of a winter morning: when horses look at you, where they look from is not where we look from. I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses.” – Russell Hoban
“If you have gained the trust of a horse, you have won a friend for life.”
“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Horses have taught us about the transfiguring effect of reducing anger. We have repeatedly observed that they rarely show offense at a handler who reprimands them legitimately for something they have done wrong if the handler is devoid of rage or vengeance. However, if reprimanded in a fury, horses will counterattack because they feel challenged. Many power struggles can be avoided by learning not to meet anger with anger. This is an invaluable lesson in life. Developing patience and being unemotional is the key.” – Adele von Rust McCormick
“Half the failures in life result from pulling in one’s horse when it is leaping.”
“From horses, we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about ourselves and about life as a whole.” – George Gaylord Simpson
“Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it’s giving you its life. Every time.” – Matthew Stover
“Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.” – Jane Smiley
“A life without horses, is like taking a breath without air.”
“A great horse will change your life. The truly special ones define it.”
“Proper handling of a horse like this is no simple matter. He was trained to race, from birth. Not only to race but to be the best. Once a champion, he was spoiled with attention and permissive handling. Add to that, he’s an ungelded male, with a strong natural mating drive. It all adds up to a horse with a mile-wide streak of arrogance, bloody bored out of his mind. Without proper exercise and opportunities to mate, all that aggressive energy festers. He becomes moody, intractable, withdrawn, destructive.” – Tessa Dare
“People ought to quit worrying so much about whispering to their horses and just start listening to them.” – Greg Darnall
“People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.” – Marya Mannes
“One who believes that he has mastered the art of horsemanship has not yet begun to understand the horse.”
“One must think when looking at a horse in motion, that he hears music inside his head.”
“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” – Paulo Coelho
“The way to whistle for a horse is to purse your lips together loosely, blowing moderately hard and sing “Whee-oo! Whee-oo! Whee-oo!” in a high-pitched voice. Try it. You can do it.” – Mildred Armstrong Kalis
“The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never” – Yiddish proverb
“The sunshine’s golden gleam is thrown, on sorrel, chestnut, bay, and roan.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A horse is wonderfully sensitive for an animal of his size and strength. He is timid by nature and his courage comes only from his confidence in man. His speed, strength, and endurance he will willingly give, and give it to the utmost, if the hand that guides is strong and gentle, and the voice that controls is firm, confident, and friendly. Lack of courage in the master takes from the horse his only chance of being brave; lack of steadiness makes him indirect and futile; lack of kindness frightens him into actions which are the result of terror at first, and which become vices only by mismanagement.”
“A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince, but one is an insect, and the other a hose still.” – Samuel Johnson
“A dream about a horse means freedom, strength, vitality, and a surge in psychic abilities.” – Lawren Leo
“A camel may be a horse designed by a committee, but a horse was designed by a woman.” – Chloe Thurlow
“If I’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that horses do listen to you. They may not have a clue what you’re saying, but they know the tone in which you say it. I’ll sing to horses so hooked on their own nerves they’re ready to climb into the sky, and sometimes it’s one of the only things that keep them on the ground.” – Mara Dabrishus
“I’ve often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you’ll become a believer!” – Buck Brannaman
“I’ve often said there is nothing better for the inside of the man, than the outside of the horse.” – Ronald Reagan
“I was a boy, and I believed deeply in the sightedness of horses. I believed that there was nothing that they did not witness. I believed that to have a horse between my legs, to extend my pulse and blood and energy to theirs, enhanced my vision. Made of me a seer. I believed them to be the dappled, sorrel, roan, bay, black pupils in the eyes of God.” – Mark Spragg
“I stood with my hands on the horses’ necks, feeling the electricity of their thinking, the blood moving throughout their veins, and the history held neatly within the fabric of every organ of their equine anatomy as if the body were a storage unit of memory. As I absorbed every nuance of the four-legged creatures, I touched my own stomach, lower back, liver, and spleen to see what the energies felt like. I compared one horse to another, then to myself, fascinated by the way each was so unique yet so the same.” – Bethanne Elion
“I have seen things so beautiful they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.”
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
“I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.” – Kublai Khan
“I had always held a little towards Gulliver’s opinion, that horses are better than we are, and, that day, I would have been glad to depart with him to the kingdom of horses, if I’d been given the chance.” – Angela Carter
“For a human to win, it is not necessary for a horse to lose. You should not have to take things away from a horse or break him into fragments in order to train him; rather you should add to the horse. The goal should be making, not breaking.” – Cherry Hill
“Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” – Dale Carnegie
“First, no other animals have the same mirroring effect as horses, meaning they will mirror humans’ emotions. Second, they are not judgmental or biased. And third, they live within a social structure, heir herds, much the same as we do.” – Valerie Ormond
“Every rider has that one special horse that one horse who changes everything about them.”
“Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.” – Nuno Oliveira
“Don’t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.” – Rumi
“Do you give the horse his strength or clothe his neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength, and charges into the fray. He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; he does not shy away from the sword. The quiver rattles against his side, along with the flashing spear and lance. In frenzied excitement he eats up the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.”
“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is that they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.” – Dale Taylor
Originally published January 16, 2022, updated January 16, 2022
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