• "A boy is a boy a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can read distinctly; and yet there are some people who, as soon a they get on a young horse, entirely undressed and untaught, fancy that by beating and spurring they will make him a dressed horse in one morning only. I would feign ask such stupid people whether by beating a boy they would teach him to read without first showing him the alphabet? Sure they would beat him to death before they would make him read.
- Reproduced from The Man Who Listens to Horses (Original source unknown).
• "Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management." -- GEORGE H. MORRIS from: The American Jumping Style
•Job 39:19-25 (King James Version) 19Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
20Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
21He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
22He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
23The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
24He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
25He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
• A horse is a thing of such beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. -- Xenophon
• "Four things greater than all things are: Women and Horses & Power and War." - Rudyard Kipling
• "There are only two emotions that belong in the saddle; One is a sense of humor, and the other is patience." -- John Lyons
• Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth. -- Shakespeare, Henry V
• Let us look beyond the ears of our own horses so that we may see the good in one another's. -- Old equine expression
• 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
• "When I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble along with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them." -- Monica Dickens
• ...through his mane and tail the high wind sings, fanning the hairs, who wave like feather'd wings. -- Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
• "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
• "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
• "We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength." -- Monica Dickens
• "To the Greeks, he was a god of beauty, half wild, half tame." -- Monica Dickens
• "You can tell a horse owner by the interior of her car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs." -- Helen Thompson
• "A daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out stables." -- Samatha Armstrong
• "A canter is a cure for every evil." -- Benjamin Disraeli
• "Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all." -- Monica Dickens
• There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. -- Old equine expression
• Whether you regard the horse with awe or love, it is impossible to escape the sheer power of his presence.... -- Mary Wanless
• A prince is never surrounded by as much majesty on his throne as he is on a beautiful horse. -- William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
• "People talk about size, shape, quarters, blood, bone, muscle, but for my part, give me a hunter with brains; he has to take care of the biggest fool of the two and think for both." -- G.J. Whyte Melville
••••••••••••• 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. -- "The War God's Horse Song", Anonymous Navajo poet •••••••••••••••
• And the hoofs of the horses as they run shake the crumbling field.... -- Publius Virgilius Maro, Roman poet (70-19 B.C.)
• "My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to the bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship to each other." -- Jonathan Swift
• "Horses have never hurt anyone yet, except when they bet on them." -- Stuart Cloete
• The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. -- Arabian proverb
• "His eyes were brilliant; they blazed as though red fire were in them. His nostrils quivered and dilated, his neck was proudly arched. In every line and curve of his body there was a lithe, wild gracefulness, an exultant beauty that was strength and swiftness and freedom." -- Herbert Ravenel Sass
• Horses carry the history of mankind on their broad backs. -- Lucinda Prior Palmer
• "It excites me that no matter how much machinery replaces the horse, the work it can do is still measured in horsepower.....even in this space age. And although a riding horse often weighs half a ton, and a big drafter a full ton, either can be led about by a piece of string if he has been wisely trained. This to me is a constant source of wonder, and challenge." -- Margeurete Henry
• Noblest of the train that wait on man, the flight-performing horse. -- William Cowper (1731-1800), English poet
• "...virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock... I have given thee the power of flight without wings." -- The Q'ran
• "There on the tips of fair fresh flowers feedeth he; How joyous is his neigh, there in the midst of sacred pollen hidden all hidden he; how joyous is his neigh...." -- Navajo Song
• "Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are." -- Old English Saying
••••••••••••• 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 (1822-1872), American poet •••••••••••••
• "By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself." -- Emir Abd-el-Kader
• "When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, 'I want to make a creature of you. Condense.' And the Wind condensed." -- Emir Abd-el-Kader
• "A man (or woman) on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot." -- John Steinbeck
• "It takes all the dignity out of a horse to make him do tricks. Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor - no dignity, no character of his own." -- John Steinbeck
• "A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot." -- John Steinbeck
• "Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses." -- Elizabeth Taylor
• "It was a horse, yet it looked queer - it had something on its back. So that was a man! Something was wrong with it. It walked on its hind legs. And it wasn't half as big as a horse!" -- Henry Herbert Knibbs
• "I saw a child who couldn't walk, sit on a horse and laugh and talk; I saw a child who could only crawl, mount a horse and sit up tall; I saw a child born into strife, take up and hold the reins of life; And the same child was heard to say, 'Thank you God for showing me the way.'" -- John Anthony Davis
• "Words are as beautiful as wind and horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral." -- Ted Berkman, The Christian Science Monitor
• "One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses." -- Dale Carnegie from: How To Win Friends and Influence People
• "What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age." -- French Proverb
• "If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong." -- Pat Parelli
• A canter is a cure for every evil. -- Benjamin Disraeli
• "Think of riding as a science, but love it as an art." -- George Morris
•••••••••••• My horse has a hoof like a striped agate Hi fetlock is like a fine eagle plume Hi legs are like lightning My horse has a tail like a thin black cloud the Holy Wind blows through his mane... -- Navajo song ••••••••••••
• "It is the difficult horses that have the most to give you." -- Lendon Gray
• "Might my husband also ride him? Then he can see how lovely it is to sit on a well-trained horse." -- Queen Elizabeth II
• Computers are like horses, press the right button and they'll take you anywhere. -- Unknown
• "Sometimes they suddenly start racing in the middle of the night, a thudding stampede for no reason, unless it's ghosts." -- Monica Dickens
••••••••••••• 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. -- Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis •••••••••••••
• "Horses do think. Not very deeply, perhaps, but enough to get you into a lot of trouble." -- Patricia Jacobson and Marcia Hayes
• "Too much thinking was the enemy of instinct, and without instinct riders were nothing...." -- Bill Barich
• "Of all creature God made at the Creation, there is none more excellent, or so much to be respected as a horse." -- Bedouin Legend •••••••••• There are only two emotions that belong on the saddle; One is a sense of humor, and the other is patience. -- John Lyons ••••••••••
• "To ride a horse well, you have to know it as well as you know your best friend." -- Equestrian Katie Monahan Prudent
• The only approbation a rider should covet is that of his horse. -- E. Beudant
• Most persons do not ride; they are conveyed. -- M.F. McTaggart
• "Each leg in its gallop seems to stream with a rush of speed as though from a bucket of water poured o'er the field." -- Arabian Poet
••••••••••• She was iron-sinew'd and satin-skinn'd. Ribb'd like a drum and limb'd like a deer, Fierce as the fire and fleet as the wind-- There was nothing she couldn't climb or clear. -- Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870), Australian poet •••••••••••
• "Amazingly fast, incredibly strong, tirelessly proud, fantastically gentle, he is a huge dark beast that touches the hearts of all who meet him.
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment.
And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse." -- Anna SANNA SEWELL
• 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 (1564-1616), English playwright and poet
• "If God had intended man to walk, he would have given him four legs. Instead, he gave him two - one to put on either side of a horse." -- Montana Rancher
• "I must not forget to thank the difficult horses, who made my life miserable, but who were better teachers than the well-behaved school horses who raised no problems." -- Alois Podhaiasky
••••••••••• My Beautiful! My beautiful! that standest meekly by With thy proudly-arch'd and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye, Fret not to roam the desert now, with all thy winged speed; I may not mount on thee again--thou'rt sold, my Arab steed! -- Caroline Norton (1808-1877), Irish writer •••••••••••
• "Changing horses in the middle of a stream, gets you wet and sometimes cold...Changing faces in the middle of a dream gets you old...oh, gets you old." -- Dan Fogelberg
• "It is best not to swap horses while crossing the river." -- Abraham Lincoln
• "For the wonderful brain of man/However mighty its force/Had never achieved its lordly plan/Without the aid of a horse." -- Ella Wilcox
• "That hoss wasn't built to tread the earth/He took natural to the air;/And every time he went aloft,/He tried to leave me there." -- Anonymous tribute to an unmanagable horse
• "Cowboys hate walking; they really know how to use their horses. They conserve the energy of the horse, treating it like a valuable piece of farm equipment." -- Robert Redford
• In riding a horse, we borrow freedom. -- Pam Brown
• "Never...telegraph to your horse how you feel unless you want him to feel the same. No creature is more sensitive to mood than a horse. He will at once recognize fear or impatience on the part of his rider." -- MacGregor Jenkins
• I ride, therefore I am. -- Unknown
• "There is nothing like a rattling ride for curing melancholy!" -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
•••••••••••• For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about the Horse-shoe Nail. -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, June 1758, The Complete Poor Richards Almanacs, facsimile ed., vol.. 2. 375, 377 [1970] ••••••••••••
• A horse loves freedom, and the weariest work horse will roll on the ground or break loose into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose in the open. -- Gerald Raftery
••••••••••••• Does it really matter what these affectionate people do -so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses! Mrs. Patrick Campbell, rebuke to a young actress reporting that an old actress in the company was too fond of the young and the handsome leading-man. -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, June 1758, The Complete Poor Richards Almanacs, facsimile ed., vol.. 2. 375, 377 [1970] •••••••••••••
• I don't mind where people make love so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses! -- The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 3d ed., p. 128 [1970]
• My dear, I don't care what they do so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses! -- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed., p. 706, no. 16 [1982]
•••••••••••• "Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword." -- JOB 39: verses 19-22 ••••••••••••
• Men on horseback have created most of the world's history. -- Unknown
• "Once the horse bites you, you never get over it." -- Paul Cleveland
• "Good horses make short miles." -- George Herbert
• "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
• The Horse: Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity, a willing servant, yet no slave. – Unknown
• "When man set about mastering the world he lived in, the horse was his friend and partner" -- Han Silvester
• "Your true horseman may have a great affection for a special pet, but what he loves and reveres from deep down in his being is not a horse but horseflesh - horseflesh as a temple of noble qualities, of endearing foibles, of an astonishing capacity for understanding and cooperation." -- George Agnew Chamberlain
• If you have it, you have it 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 may be broadly stated that, with the single exception of goldfish, of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind, the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless." -- Bret Harte
• A lot of what's about horses is nuts and bolts...If the rider's nuts, the horse bolts. -- The Horse Whisperer
• "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
• "The Horse, Thou art a creature without equal- For thou flyest without wings And conquers without sword." –Unknown
• "One key to getting along well with a horse is to view him as a fellow creature rather than as an for entertainment." -- Patricia Jacobson and Marcia Hayes
• You can tell a gelding, ask a mare; but you must discuss it with a stallion. -- Unknown
• "I ate, lived and slept horses. I used to love even the smell of the tack - cleaned, oiled, and shined to an old burnished shimmer." -- Christilot Hanson Boylen
• "An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction; all these passed between us as through telegraph wires." -- Christilot Hanson Boylen
• I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse. -- Groucho Marx, in Horse Feathers, 1932
• "Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to race tracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave." -- Dick Beddoes
• "My father was, and is, a law-abiding citizen of the realm, but if ever he wanders off the path of righteousness, it will not be gold or silver that enticed him, but, more likely, I think, the irresistable contours of a fine but elusive horse." -- Beryl Markham
• "There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse." -- Robert Smith Surtees
• "Show me your horse and I will tell you what you are." -- Old English Saying
• "The sunshine's golden gleam is thrown/On sorrel, chestnut, bay and roan;/The horses paw and prance and neigh,/Fillies and colts like kittens play,/And dance and toss their rippled manes/Shining and soft as silken skeins...." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
• "I am still under the impression there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse." -- John Galsworthy
• "A hundred yards away I saw a big bony colt acting up. He'd just returned from a gallop and was feeling good. He pranced along with that challenging winner's gait. Thoroughbreds are athletes and they probably share with other athletes the brief period of illumination that follows a satisfying workout." -- Bill Barich
• "When I was a young girl, I thought of being a mounted policewoman, because I figured I could ride horses and be paid for it - what a job!" -- Olivia Newton-John
• "The hooves of the horses! - Oh! witching and sweet/Is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet;/No whisper of lover, no trilling of bird,/Can stir me as hooves of the horses have stirred." -- Will H. Ogilvie
• "The horse is God's gift to man." -- Arabian Proverb
• "In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to God." -- Tuscan Proverb
••••••• Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. -- Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French scientist, philosopher, Pense'es. •••••••
••••••• "When I am Old..." I shall wear turquoise And a straw cowboy hat that doesn't match and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my social security on white wine and carrots And sit in the alley way of my barn And listen to my horses breathe. I will sneak out in the middle of a summer night And ride the dappled mare Across the moonstruck meadow, If my old bones will allow. And when people come to call, I will smile and nod, As I walk them past the gardens to the barn And show, instead, the flowers growing there. In stalls fresh-lined with straw I will learn to shovel and sweat and wear hay in my hair as if it were a jewel. And I will be an embarrassment to my only child Who will have not yet found the peace in being free To love a horse as a friend, A friend who waits at midnight hour With muzzle and nicker and patient eyes For the kind of person I will be When I am old. -- Patty Barnhart ••••••••
•••••••• Listen to the horses clipping, clopping, hoofbeats everywhere never stopping... Gonna ride my Palomino, Ride him to the fair.... -- Raffi ••••••••
•••••••• Dawn bounced up in a bright red hat, waved at the world and skipped away. Up staggered the foal, its hooves were jelly-knots of foam.
Then day sniffed with its blue nose through the open stable window, and found them-- the foal nuzzling its mother, velvet fumbling for her milk. -- Ferenc Juhasz, B. 1928, Hungarian poet ••••••••
•••••••• "Somewhere, somewhere in times own space, there must be some, sweet pastured place; of pastures green where fresh creeks flow, some paradise where horses go. For by the love that guides my pen, I know great horses live again." -- AUTHOR UNKNOWN ••••••••
• "You're only a boy, but if you break this colt, you'll be a man - a young man, but a man." -- Lincoln Steffens
• "The grandstand was empty and quiet, with the cool feel of an aluminum mixing bowl waiting for ingredients." -- Bill Barich
• "A good horse knows just when to turn a cow, just how to cut a steer from the bunch. A good cow pony knows, as if by instinct, when to walk slowly through the brush, how to miss the gopher hole at a high canter. Many a cowboy owes his very life to his horse. The cowpoke and the cow pony become nt just a team working in unison, they become as one." -- Royal B. Hassrick
• "Cowboying requires real knowledge of a horse and his capabilities...A horse can sense when a real horseman is in the saddle. He knows when the rider is going to tough it out." -- Robert Redford
• "The rhythm of the ride carried them on and on, and she knew that the horse was as eager as she, as much in love with the speed and air and freedom." -- Georgess McHargue
• It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. -- Stephen Leacock (1869-1944), Canadian humorist, economist. Literary Lapses, "Reflections on Riding" 1910
• "Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol." -- Fletcher Knebel
• "Many persons have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, is a far better time for horses." -- C.W. Anderson
• "The blood runs hot in the Thoroughbred and the courage runs deep. In the best of them, pride is limitless. This is their heritage and they carry it like a banner. What they have, they use." -- C.W. Anderson
••••••• The horse has so docile a nature, That he would always rather do Right than wrong, if he can only Be taught to distinguish one from the other. -- George Melville (1821-1878), Scottish writer •••••••
• "On arriving somewhere in the approximate area of take-off, I let the horse take command and jump the fence. I try to be an uninterfering passenger from there to the other side, and then I take up command again." -- David Broome
• "Smoothness of execution in every detail is the sine qua non of good horsemanship; jumping in particular, in itself a violent effort, should be rendered as easy and as pleasant as possible for both horse and man by every means in our power." -- Piero Santini
• "See to it that the cold be kind, used to the hand, and fond of man." -- Xenophon
• "What a horse does under compulsion is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip or spur a dancer." -- Xenophon
• "He's the kind of horse with a far-away look. He'll sure take a man through some awful places and sometimes only one comes out." W.S. James
• "One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse." -- Phyllis Theroux
• "Yet when all the books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them." -- Walter Farley
• "I ride horses because it's the only sport where I can exercise while sitting down." -- Joan Hansen
• "You cannot judge of the horse by the harness." -- Proverb
• "Even the most forlorn thoroughbred, seen at a distance - like a woman outside the fence at an Army camp - is flawlessly beautiful." -- Joe Flaherty
• "It's hard enough to strike off at a canter from a walk with one horse. But to have eight horses doing this at the same time without the slightest raggedness is a work of art." -- Visitor to the Spanish Riding School, Vienna
• "A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him." -- Lord Herbert
• "There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." -- Sir Winston Churchill
• "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 centre of the household." -- George Bernard Shaw
• "One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse." -- Phyllis Theroux
• "Yet when all the books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them." -- Walter Farley
• "I ride horses because it's the only sport where I can exercise while sitting down." -- Joan Hansen
• "My early riding days were spent on the wooden, or rocking variety of mount. Armchairs, bedsteads, all served in my apprenticeship - in fact, my parents' furniture still bears the mark of my whip and improvised spurs! -- Alan Oliver
• "Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse." -- Danish Proverb
• "I purchased some classics on horse care...I gradually came to understand they were like 19th-century religious tomes on how to save your soul: ive, good; instructions, extremely detailed; practical application, impossible." - C.J.J. Mullen
•••••••• Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real center of the household. -- Gerorge Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Anglo-Irish Play-write, critic. Lady Utterword, in Hartbreak House, act 3 ••••••••
• "We kept him until he died...and sat with him during the long last minutes, when a horse comes closest to seeming human." C.J.J. Mullen
• "Experienced riders are not prone to brag. And usually newcomers, if they start out being boastful, end up modest." C.J.J. Mullen
••••••• My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, With thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye! -- Caroline Sheridan Norton 1808-1877, English writer, poet. The Arab's Farewell to His Steed •••••••
••••••• 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 [1573-1637] •••••••
• "All our best horses have Arab blood, and once in a while it seems to have come out strong and show in every part of the creature, in his frame, his power, and his wild, free, roving spirit." -- Ernest Thompson Seton
• "Horse, thou art truly a creature without equal, for thou fliest without wings and conquerest without sword." -- The Q'ran
• "A lovely horse is always an experience...It is an experience of the kind that is spoiled by words." -- Beryl Markham
• "Half the failures in life result from pulling in one's horse when it is leaping." -- Unknown
• "Just grab tight with your knees and keep your hands away from the saddle, and if you get throwed, don't let that stop you. No matter how good a man is, there's always some horse can pitch him. You just climb up again before he gets to feeling smart about it. Pretty soon, he won't throw you no more, and pretty soon he can't throw you no more." -- John Steinbeck
• "The horse - the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous, and certainly the mose perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated." -- Anne McCaffrey
• "A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character." -- Tesio
• "It was quite customary as late as 1890 to see a countryman returning from the market, fast asleep, slumped forward over his saddle bar while his horse plodded his own way home." -- Dorothy Hartley
• "England's past has been bourne on his back; All our history is his industry. We are his heirs; he our inheritance." from "The Horse" by British Poet RONALD DUNCAN
• "Under his spurnin feet, the road like an arrowly alpine river flowed; and the lanscape sped away behind, like an ocean flying before the wind." -- Thomas Buchana Read
