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Let us look beyond the ears of our own horses so that we may see the good in one another's.
-Anon.
Old equine expression
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There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
-Anon.
Old equine expression
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I am the Turquoise Woman's Son,
On top of Belted Mountain
beautiful horses--slim like a weasel!
My horse with a hoof like a striped agate,
with his fetlock like a fine eagle plume:
my horse whose legs are like quick lightning
whose body is an eagle-plumed arrow:
my horse whose tail is like a trailing black cloud.
The Little Holy Wind blows through his hair.
My horse with a mane made of short rainbows.
My horse with ears made of round corn.
My horse with eyes made of big starts.
My horse with a head made of mixed waters.
My horse with teeth made of white shell.
The long rainbow is in his mouth for a bridle
and with it I guide him.
-Anon.
The War God's Horse Song, Anonymous Navajo poet
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England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
-Robert Burton
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3
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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
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A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
-Ian Fleming
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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 Jonson
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You were a lord if you had a horse...
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances. . . . The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, 1931
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
-Abraham Lincoln
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My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, with thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye!
-Caroline Norton
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Under his spurning feet, the road
Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind....
-Thomas Buchanan Read
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I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
-Will Rogers
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So did this horse excel a common one
In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone.
...What a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
-William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
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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
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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
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It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts
-Harry S Truman
speech, October 17, 1948
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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.
-Chuang Tzu
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Books about Horses, Horse Racing
