Equestrian Quotes

• There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Horse, Class, Two

  1919 Lady Utterword. Heartbreak House, act 3.

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• Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Art, Horse, Perfect

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• There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Horse, Secret, Riding

  'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 31

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• 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

  Beautiful, Dream, Horse

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• You can never rely on a horse that is educated by fear. There will always be something that he fears more than you. But, when he trusts you, he will ask you, what to do when he is afraid.

  Antoine de Pluvinel

  Trust, Horse, Fear

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• The horse is a great equalizer, he doesn't care how good looking you are, or how rich you are or how powerful you are-- he takes you for how you make him feel.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Powerful, Animal

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• Horses lend us the wings we lack.

  Pam Brown

  Horse, Wings, Equine

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  When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Equine, Seats

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• 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 then a loan.

  Pam Brown

  Wise, Horse, Remember

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• 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

  Horse, Air, Musical

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.197, Oxford University Press, USA

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  No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Animal, Cowboy

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• A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Pushing, Riding

  "Reflections on Equestrian Art". Book by Nuno Oliveira, 1965.

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• Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

  Alice Walker

  Beautiful, Horse, Inspiration

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• 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

  Sports, Art, Horse

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• When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

  Roy Rogers

  Horse, Fall, Age

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• Ask often, be content of little, reward always.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Often Is, Contentment

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• Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management.

  George H. Morris

  Horse, Mean, Attention

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• 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

  Horse, Excuse, Arcs

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• Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Horse, Crazy

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• Leo: Rainbows. Very macho. Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi. Leo: Rainbows, ponies... Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot.

  Rick Riordan

  Rainbow, Ponies, Annabeth

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• 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

  Horse, Riding, Prancing

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

  Jane Smiley

  Horse, Riding, Mysterious

  "Jane Smiley: Everything I need to know I learned from a horse" by Jane Smiley, edition.cnn.com. September 5, 2011.

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• A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

  John Steinbeck

  Horse, Men, Feet

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• He doth nothing but talk of his horses.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Medieval War

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [43]

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

  Nicholas Evans

  Horse, Cowboy, Nuts

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