A FEW GOOD HORSE QUOTES
And On The Eighth Day GOD Said: "Horses Shall Not Trot." And the Good
Horses Listened.
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"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."
Emerson
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"Thou must learn the thoughts of the noble horse whom thou wouldst ride.
The horse is a wise animal. Let him show you the best and most natural
way to accomplish a desired end."
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no
horses."
Robert B Cunninghame-Graham 1917
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"No hour of life is lost that is spent riding a horse." Winston
Churchill
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"Rider and horse must meet with joy and part as friends. The friendly
greeting, the patting hand should never be absent when mounting and
dismounting." F.v.Krane (1856, 82, translation: TR).
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Never leave a resistant horse without reconciliation, even if you had to
treat it very strictly on that particular day. Do not put it away until
it obeys, but then a friendly relationship must be restored between
trainer and horse. Always adhere to the principle: "The punishment is
directed only at the disobedience, never at the horse"; as soon as the
disobedience is over, it is our good horse.
E.F.Seidler (1846, 365, translation: TR).
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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 (1735 - 1826)
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It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
Russian proverb
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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on
people.
W. C. Fields (1890 - 1946)
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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
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"Look back on our struggle
for freedom,
Trace our present day's
strength to it's source;
And you'll find that man's
pathway to glory
Is strewn with the bones
of a horse"
Anonymous
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"Where in this wideworld can a person find nobility without pride,
friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is
laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without
servility, he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful,
nothing less violent; there is nothing so quick, nothing more
patient"...Ronald Duncan
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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
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When I can't ride anymore,
I shall keep horses as long as
I can hobble along with a
bucket and wheelbarrow.
When I can't hobble,
I shall roll my wheelchair out by the fence
of the field where my horses graze,
and watch them."
~Monica Dickens
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Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyways.
~John Wayne
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Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.
~Winston Chuchill
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"A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves- strong,
powerful, beautiful- and it has the capability of giving us escape from
our mundane existance."
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"do we really have to cross the creek when there is a great bridge over
there?" Vendavalda the Peruvian Paso.
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Moments spent on the back of a horse are ne'er counted against the hours
of a man's life....
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"God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses."
Robert Bontine
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"Emily,I've a little confession to make. I really am a horse doctor. But
marry me, and I'll never look at any other horse!" Groucho Marx
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It may be broadly stated that.....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
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One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life
devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.
--Phillis Theroux