Equine Quotes

• A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.

  Federico Tesio

  Horse, Inspiration, Heart

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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, Equestrian

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• 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

  Horse, Needs, Body

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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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• Horses lend us the wings we lack.

  Pam Brown

  Horse, Wings, Equestrian

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• Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

  Bantu Holomisa

  Horse, Pride, Men

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• Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Horse, Home, Whirlwind

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• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Memorable, Animal

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 4, l. 7

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• You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

  Stan Laurel

  Horse, Teach A Man To Fish, Water

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• His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.

  Jerry Shulman

  Song, Horse, Heart

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• There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be.

  Andy Adams

  Horse, Faces, May

  Andy Adams (2015). “The Log of a Cowboy”, p.85, Booklassic

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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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• 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, Equestrian

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

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• I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Horse, Heart, Sound

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• A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.

  Beryl Markham

  Horse, Cowboy, Emotional

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Horse, War, Four

  Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Ballad of the King's Jest"

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• 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 then what I have here on earth?".

  Monica Dickens

  Determination, Horse, Two

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• A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.

  Rebecca Carroll

  Dream, Horse, Childhood

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• In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Horse, Inspiration, Riding

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• If in another world there is any riding — and God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses — I cannot but think that there will be a soft swishing as of the footsteps of some invisible horse heard occasionally on the familiar trails over which the equestrian statue is to look.

  Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

  Horse, Heaven, Equestrian

  "Thirty Tales & Sketches".

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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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• 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 Cotten

  Horse, Dark, Mourning

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• You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

  Ric Keller

  Horse, Thinking, Water

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• Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

  John Heywood

  Birthday, Gratitude, Horse

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.391

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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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