Horse Quotes - Page 3

• My horses are my friends, not my slaves.

  Reiner Klimke

  Slave, My Friends

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• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

  John Adams

  Motivational, Exercise, Order

  "Presidential Proverbs: Quotes From U.S. Presidents Past, Present, and Future" by Kevin Daum, www.inc.com. November 09, 2016.

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• Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Hard Times, Insperational

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• If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

  Socrates

  Want, Saddles, Worst

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• A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.

  Monty Roberts

  Speak, Trainers

  Monty Roberts (2002). “Horse Sense for People: The Man Who Listens to Horses Talks to People”, p.13, Penguin

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  War, Four, Equine

  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, Two, Heaven

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• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Quiet, Moments

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• A good horse makes short miles.

  George Eliot

  Equestrian, Miles, Good Horse

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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

  Air, Musical, Earth

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

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• 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

  Beautiful, Animal, Egypt

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• Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Strong, Wind, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.421, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Food, Health

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

  Bantu Holomisa

  Pride, Men, Vanity

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• It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
  the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
  dancing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Sight, Dancing

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• A good horse should be seldom spurred.

  Thomas Fuller

  Be Patient, Should, Good Horse

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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

  Needs, Body, Failing

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• Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.

  Buck Brannaman

  Teaching

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• 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

  Forever, Special, Literature

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.222, Herman Melville

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• FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our wishes -- do you recall? And we did make so many! For there were countless numbers of stars: each time we looked above we were astounded by the swiftness of their daring play, while in our hearts we felt safe and secure watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate, knowing somehow we had survived their fall.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Fall, Heart

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Ernest Flemming (1986). “Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems”, p.210, Psychology Press

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• 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

  Car, Literature, Sake

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 17

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

  Nicholas Evans

  Cowboy, Nuts, Equestrian

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• 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

  Sex, Practice, Long

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• The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.

  William Henry Ogilvie

  Sweet, Iron, Feet

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