- "God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses." - R. B. Cunningham Graham
- "If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you onto a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair." - Monica Dickens
- "It's in my blood. Horse fever. Once you get it into your blood, it never goes out."
- "Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means." - Rudolf C. Binding
- "Distances are like men...never take the first one you see, there will be always be another one!" - George Morris
- "No ride is ever the last one. No horse is ever the last one you will have. Somehow there will always be other horses, other places to ride them." - Monica Dickens
- "The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." - Arabian proverb
- "A canter is a cure for every evil." - Benjamin Disraeli
- "I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake." - J.D. Salinger
- "A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still." - Samuel Johnson
- "There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." - Winston Churchill
- "No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle." - Winston Churchill
- "The grace of God is found between the saddle and the ground." - Irish proverb
- "I can make a general in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace." - Abraham Lincoln
- "A man that don't love a horse, there is something the matter with him." - Will Rogers
- "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. It seizes a person whole, and, once it has done so, he will have to accept that his life will be radically changed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "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
- "A horse gallops with his lungs, preservers with his heart, and wins with his character." - Frederico Tesio
- "The horse. Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing servant, yet never a slave." - Ronald Duncan
- "No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses." - Herman Melville
- "A horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music." - Mark Helprin
- "Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor." - Pam Brown
- "To me, horses and freedom are synonymous." - Veryl Goodnight
- "The horse through all of its trials has persevered the sweetness of paradise in its blood." - Johannes Jensen
- "Somewhere in time's own space / There must be some sweet pastured place / Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow / Some paradise where horses go, / For by the love that guides my pen / I know great horses live again." - Stanley Harrison
- "I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses." - Victor Hugo
- "We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of a blossom - once lost it will never return." - Pluvinel
- "Good horses make short miles." - George Herbert
- "The sight of that horse did something to me I've never been able to explain. He was more than tremendous strength and speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming." - Walt Morey
- "A lovely horse is always an experience. . . . It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words." - Beryl Markham
- "My horses are my friends, not my slaves." - Reiner Klimke
- "A horse is worth more than riches." - Spanish proverb
- "My treasures do not clink together or glitter. They gleam in the sun and neigh in the night." - Arabian proverb
- "And God took a handful of southerly wind, blew his breath over it and created the horse." - Bedouin myth
- "When God created the horse he said to the magnificent creature: I have made thee as no other. All the treasures of the earth lie between thy eyes. Thou shalt carry my friends upon thy back. Thy saddle shall be the seat of prayers to me. And thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without sword. Oh, horse." - The Koran
jun 14 2009 ∞
apr 26 2013 +