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There is nothing like the love of horses …

• People have always cared me a bit, you see – they’re so complicated. I suppose that’s why I prefer horses.  From the movie Separate Tables, 1958
• A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse.  J.J. Mullen
• I don’t like people,” said Velvet. “… I only like horses. Enid Bagnold, National Velvet
• 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
• A true horseman does not look at the horse with his eyes, he looks at his horse with his heart.
• The love for a horse is just as complicated as the love for another human being…if you never love a horse, you will never understand.
• Before I loved horses, I had nothing to live for. Now I love horses and can’t stop seeing things to live for.
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… especially the love and fascination of children for horses

• Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house. Maya Patel
• One day, twin boys went off with their grandfather on an outing. They walked through the woods until they came upon an old barn. When the boys and their grandfather stepped inside to explore, one of the boys immediately started complaining: ‘Grampa, let’s get out of here. The old barn stinks like horse manure.’ The boy stood near the door, angry because he now had manure on his new shoes. Before the old man could respond he saw his other grandson running happily through the barn’s many stalls. ‘What are you looking for?’ he asked the second little boy. ‘Why are you so happy?’ The boy looked up and said, ‘With all that horse manure in here there must be a pony somewhere.’ Debbie Ford
• The 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 a stable. Samantha Armstrong
• Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse. Jane Smiley
• All horses deserve, at least once in their lives, to be loved by a little girl.
• A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure. Rebecca Carroll
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There is nothing like the partnership between a person and their horse …

• 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
• Riding is a partnership. The horse lends you his strength, speed and grace, which are greater then yours. For your part, you give him guidance, intelligence and understanding which are greater then his. Together you can achieve a richness that neither can alone. Lucy Rees
• There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. Robert Smith Surtees

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… or the bond that grows between them …

• A horse doesn’t care how much you know, until he knows how much you care. Pat Parelli
• She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands… It was a special embrace saved for special occasions. Jean M. Auel
• When your horse follows you without being asked, when he rubs his head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle down your spine…you know you are loved. John Lyons
• To understand the soul of a horse is the closest human beings can come to knowing perfection.
• When a horse greets you with a nicker and regards you with a large and liquid eye, the question of where you want to be has been answered.
• At its finest, rider and horse are joined not by tack, but by trust. Each is totally reliant upon the other. Each is the selfless guardian of the other’s very well-being.
• Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning…the faithful horse has been with us always. Elizabeth Cotton
• You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me. Pam Brown
• He knows when you’re happy. He knows when you’re comfortable. He knows when you’re confident. And he always knows when you have carrots.
• Let a horse whisper in your ear and breathe on your heart. You will never regret it.

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… or the thrill and delight of riding …

• 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, Henry V
• What delight / To back the flying steed, that challenges / The wind for speed! – seems native more of air / Than earth! – whose burden only lends him fire! James Sheridan Knowles
• To ride a horse is to ride the sky.
• No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. Winston Churchill
• In riding a horse, we borrow freedom. Helen Thompson
• When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. He trots the air, the earth sings when he touches it. William Shakespeare
• I’ve spent most of my life riding horses. The rest I’ve just wasted.
• When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have. Winston Churchill
• 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
• On the back of a horse you will find Paradise. Stella A. Walker
• There are many wonderful places in the world, but one of my favorite places is on the back of my horse. Rolf Kopfle
• The way to heaven is on horseback.
• He did not feel the ground under his feet – he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air – forelegs and hind legs horizontal. He soared above the ground, he head in jubilation. Conquering! Felix Sultan

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… or the sound of neighing, snorting and galloping hooves

• …I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was!  My very heart leaped with delight at the sound. Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me – the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs – little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory. Wynford Vaughan- Thomas
• His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song. Jerry Shulman
• The hooves of 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 much as hooves of horses  /  Have stirred. –  Will H. Ogilvie
• Nothing moves me more then when on the way to fetching in my mare in the morning than the sound of her neighing to me as I open the gate.

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Horses are wonderful creatures

• The horse through all its trials has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood. Johannes Jensen
• A lovely horse is always an experience…. It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. Beryl Markham
• To see the wind’s power, the rain’s cleansing and the sun’s radiant life, one need only to look at the horse.
• The horse. Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing servant, yet never a slave. Ronald Duncan

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Horses are God’s gift to mankind

• The horse is God’s gift to mankind. Arabian Proverb
• A horse is worth more than riches. Spanish Proverb
• And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse…. Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse.  Bedouin Legend

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Horses make wonderful companions

• All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he’ll listen to me any day.
• If you want a stable friendship, get a horse.
• When we think of those companions who traveled by our side down life’s road, let us not say with sadness that they left us behind, but rather say with gentle gratitude that they once were with us.
• A horse is like a best friend. They’re always there to nuzzle you and make your life a better place.
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Horses are good for the soul …

• All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he’ll listen to me any day.
• Feeling down? Saddle up.
• A canter is a cure for every evil. Benjamin Disraeli
• There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse. John Lubbock
• A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot. John Steinbeck
• Horses change lives. They give out young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls, they give us hope. Toni Robinson
• There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse. Missy Lyons
• Bread may feed my body, but my horse feeds my soul.
• When riding a horse we leave our fear, troubles, and sadness behind on the ground. Judi Carlson
• Feeling Down? Saddle Up. It is the only cure.
• Whoever said money can’t buy happiness, didn’t know where to buy a horse.
• There comes a point in every rider’s life when he wonders if it’s all worth it. Then one look a the horse, and he realizes – it is. Kelly Stewart
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… and call the heart to dream

• 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 existence. Pam Brown
• To many, the words love, hope and dreams are synonymous with horses.
• Hers is a power enhanced by pride, a courage heightened by challenge. His is a swiftness intensified by strength, a majesty magnified by grace. His is a timeless beauty touched with gentleness, a spirit that calls our hearts to dream.
• He has galloped through young girl’s dreams, added richness to grown women’s lives and served men in war and strife. Toni Robinson
• A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure. Rebecca Carroll
• The sight of that pony did something to me I’ve never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous strength and speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming.  Walt Morey
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Horses lend us the wings we lack

• A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan. Pam Brown
• Horses lend us the wings we lack.
• And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse…. Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse.  Bedouin Legend
• O! for a horse with wings! William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
• Virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock. I have given thee the power of flight without wings.
• For one to fly, one needs only to take the reins. Melissa James
• Horse thou art truly a creature, for thou fliest without wings and conquorest without sword.
• Horses lend us the wings we lack. Pam Brown
• When the Almighty put hoofs on the wind and a bridle on the lightning, He called it a horse.
• To ride on a horse is to fly without wings.
• 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. Abd Al-Quadir

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Horses are part human

• I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.  D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
• 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. Mullen
• A dog looks up to a man. A cat looks down on a man. But a patient horse looks a man in the eye and sees him as an equal.

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A man on a horse is man at his best

• A canter is a cure for every evil. Benjamin Disraeli
• Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul. Attributed to Edward Plantagenet
• People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.  Marya Mannes

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There is a touch of the divine in horses and a halo about them

• There are unknown worlds of knowledge in brutes; and whenever you mark a horse, or a dog, with a peculiarly mild, calm, deep-seated eye, be sure he is an Aristotle or a Kant, tranquilly speculating upon the mysteries in man. No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.  They see through us at a glance.  And after all, what is a horse but a species of four-footed dumb man, in a leathern overall, who happens to live upon oats, and toils for his masters, half- requited or abused, like the biped hewers of wood and drawers of water?  But there is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.  As for those majestic, magisterial truck- horses of the docks, I would as soon think of striking a judge on the bench, as to lay violent hand upon their holy hides.  Herman Melville, Redburn
• The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears. Arabian Proverb

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Horses are smart

• When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it’s a sure sign that the animal has somehow outfoxed them. Tom Dorrance
• Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world. Josephine Demott Robinson
• No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. Herman Melville
• In their eyes shine stars of wisdom and courage to guide men to the heavens. Jodie Mitchell
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Horses have much to teach us

• 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
• It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. Abraham Lincoln
• We ought to do good to others as simply and as naturally as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. Marcus Aurelius
• I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young.  I am sick with envy of them.  Sherwood Anderson
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Horses personify freedom …

• To me, horses and freedom are synonymous. Veryl Goodnight
• A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open. Gerald Raferty
• A thousand horse, the wild, the free, / Like waves that follow o’er the sea, / Came thickly thundering on,… / Lord Byron
• In riding a horse we borrow freedom. Helen Thomson
• I have seen things so beautiful they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.
• About the head of a truly great horse there is an air of freedom unconquerable. The eyes seem to look on heights beyond our gaze. It is the look of a spirit that can soar. John Taunter Foote
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… for horses are born to run

• Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire…. The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.  Rabindranath Tagore

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Horses personify strength and power

• In my opinion, a horse is the animal to have. Eleven-hundred pounds of raw muscle, power, grace, and sweat between your legs – it’s something you just can’t get from a pet hamster.
• 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 existence. Pam Brown
• We have almost forgotten how strange a thing it is that so huge and powerful and intelligent an animal as a horse should allow another, and far more feeble animal, to ride upon its back. Peter Gray
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Horses personify grace and beauty …

• Horses – if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.
• Horses make a landscape look beautiful. Alice Walker
• The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire. Sharon Ralls Lemon
• A horse is poetry in motion.
• Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?  Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber?  Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!  Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls, 1842
• I have seen things so beautiful they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.
• The horse, with beauty unsurpassed, strength immeasurable and grace unlike any other, still remains humble enough to carry a man upon his back. Amber Senti
• If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.
• And indeed, a horse who bears himself proudly is a thing of such beauty and astonishment that he attracts the eyes of all beholders. No one will tire of looking at him as long as he will display himself in his splendor. Xenophon
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… and move as if to music

• One must think when looking at a horse in motion, that it hears music inside its head.
• The horse moved like a dancer, which is not surprising. A horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music. Mark Helprin, A Winter’s Tale
• On horseback you feel as if you’re moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk. Walter Moers
• Stay away from a horse long enough and you’ll start tapping your fingers to the beat of a trot. A horse in the wind – a perfect symphony.
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Horses personify dignity and a calm intelligence

• Among all the sights of the docks, the noble truck-horses are not the least striking to a stranger. They are large and powerful brutes, with such sleek and glossy coats, that they look as if brushed and put on by a valet every morning. They march with a slow and stately step, lifting their ponderous hoofs like royal Siam elephants.  Thou shalt not lay stripes upon these Roman citizens; for their docility is such, they are guided without rein or lash; they go or come, halt or march on, at a whisper.  So grave, dignified, gentlemanly, and courteous did these fine truck-horses look – so full of calm intelligence and sagacity, that often I endeavored to get into conversation with them, as they stood in contemplative attitudes while their loads were preparing.  But all I could get from them was the mere recognition of a friendly neigh; though I would stake much upon it that, could I have spoken in their language, I would have derived from them a good deal of valuable information touching the docks, where they passed the whole of their dignified lives.  Herman Melville
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Horses come from a long line

• Why did this animal that had prospered so in the Colorado desert leave his amiable homeland for Siberia? There is no answer.  We know that when the horse negotiated the land bridge… he found on the other end an opportunity for varied development that is one of the bright aspects of animal history.  He wandered into France and became the mighty Percheron, and into Arabia, where he developed into a lovely poem of a horse, and into Africa where he became the brilliant zebra, and into Scotland, where he bred selectively to form the massive Clydesdale.  He would also journey into Spain, where his very name would become the designation for gentleman, a caballero, a man of the horse.  There he would flourish mightily and serve the armies that would conquer much of the known world.  James Michener

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Horses have helped us pave the path to civilisation

• A dog may be man’s best friend, but the horse wrote history.
• Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it. John Moore
• The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse.

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Horses have traditionally been beasts of burden …

• The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. Yiddish Proverb
• The burden is equal to the horse’s strength. The Talmud
• Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest. Thomas Fuller

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… and have traditionally been used in war

• It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. Adlai E. Stevenson II
• Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle—they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments. Whitehead
• I can make more generals, but horses cost money. Abraham Lincoln
• Do you give the horse his strength or clothe his neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength, and charges into the fray. He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; he does not shy away from the sword. The quiver rattles against his side, along with the flashing spear and lance. In frenzied excitement he eats up the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds. Job 39:19-25, The Bible

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Now the automobile has largely taken over …

• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. Henry Ford
• The horse is here today, but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad. President of Michigan Savings Bank advising against investing in the Ford Motor Company
• Even an E-type Jaguar looks merely flash beside a really smart pony and trap. Marion C. Garretty
• People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.  Marya Mannes
• One can get in a car and see what man has made. One must get on a horse to see what God has made.

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… giving horses a better time of it

• Many people have sighed for the ‘good old days’ and regretted the ‘passing of the horse,’ but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses. W. Anderson

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Horses have a dangerous side

• I prefer a bike to a horse. The brakes are more easily checked.  Lambert Jeffries
• Horses are predictably unpredictable. Loretta Gage
• Horses are uncomfortable in the middle and dangerous at both ends. Christopher Stone and Ian Fleming
• It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. Mexican Proverb
• It’s a lot like nuts and bolts – if the rider’s nuts, the horse bolts! Nicholas Evans
• When you’re young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you’re my age and you fall off, you splatter. Roy Rogers
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Horses can be stubborn

• If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong. Pat Parelli
• A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.
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Horses provide an abundant source of metaphors …

• A good teacher will lead the horse to water, an excellent teacher will make the horse thirsty first. Mario Cortes
• Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.  Chinese Proverb
• The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. William Blake
• Employers are like horses — they require management. P.G. Wodehouse
• Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. Winston Churchill
• Once you have spoken, even the swiftest horse cannot retract your words. Chinese proverb
• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Quincy Adams
• A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. Latin Proverb
• Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle—they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments. Whitehead
• Between the horses of love and lust we are trampled underfoot. U2, “So Cruel”
• Everything—a horse, a vine—is created for some duty… For what task, then, were you yourself created? A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for. Marcus Aurelius
• Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. Chinese Proverb
• Having a broken heart is like falling off a horse. Most people will get back on, but some walk away too afraid of the pain to take another chance.
• Now wines are wonders; great wines are magical; and winemakers are mad. Like horse fanciers, they are always trying to improve the breed. William E. Massee
• When your goals and values are not in line it is as if you have two horses pulling you in different directions. Kimberly Goodwin
• Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen. George Savile
• Those who get in the way of love’s path will be kicked by horses. Bisco Hatori
• Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other. Martin Luther
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… metaphors for burden and affliction…

• The burden is equal to the horse’s strength. The Talmud
• Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest. Thomas Fuller
• The Lord’s mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. Charles H. Spurgeon

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… metaphors for virtue and vice …

• Vanity’s a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs and chuck us over; but Pride’s a fine horse, who will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow travellers…. How often have you read of people rising from nothing, and becoming great men? This was from talent, sure enough; but it was talent with pride to force it onward, not talent with vanity to check it. Frederick Marryat
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… metaphors for giving free rein…

• One of the saddest lines in the world is, ‘Oh come now – be realistic.’ The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride. Richard A. Nelson
• Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping. W. Hare

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… metaphors for taking up the reins and steerin…

• We are, every one of us, already creating our lives all the time. The trick is to really take the reigns and steer the horse to where we want to go, rather than where we do not. Your life is a movie written by, directed by, produced by, and starring—you guessed it—YOU! We are all self- made. It is vital that we control our minds in order to re- create our lives. Will Bowen

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… metaphors for the speed of things…

• Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. William C. Hazlitt

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… metaphors relating to racing…

• But talent—if you don’t encourage it, if you don’t train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don’t tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn’t matter how fast it is. It’s useless. Elizabeth Hand
• A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. Gough Whitlam
• The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. Ovid

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… metaphors for passion…

• Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin. Henry Ward Beecher
• A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. Thomas Fuller
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… metaphors for marriage and alimony

• If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path. Marty Allen
• Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. Arthur Baer
• Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. Groucho Marx
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Thoughts on horse sense

• Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Dale Carnegie
• Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.  C. Fields
• In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you’ve just described hell. Charlie Munger
• Horse sense, n.: Stable thinking.
• There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it.

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Thoughts on horse racing

• It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. Mark Twain
• A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• My horse was so late getting home, he tiptoed into the stable. Henny Youngman
• The great thing about racehorses is you don’t need to take them for walks. Albert Finney
• The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. Ovid

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Thoughts on betting on horses

• Betting : Putting money on a horse to prevent it winning   Frank Richardson
• The best way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on it.
• Race Track: Where thousands of people can get taken for a ride on the same horse.
• I played a great horse yesterday; it took seven horses to beat him. Henny Youngman
• The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip. Henny Youngman
• You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.  Will Rogers
• In fifty years, he never worked a day. To him, nine to five was odds on a horse.  Archie Bunker

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Thoughts being a good horseman

• A Horseman should know neither fear, nor anger. James Rarey
• 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
• A good rider can hear his horse speak to him. A great rider can hear his horse whisper.
• One who believes that he has mastered the art of horsemanship has not yet begun to understand the horse.

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Thoughts on show jumping

• A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. R.H. Prince Philip

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Thoughts on leading a horse to water

• You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.
• You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him participate in synchronized diving. Cuthbert Soup
• You can take a horse to water, but a pencil must be led. Stan Laurel
• A good teacher will lead the horse to water, an excellent teacher will make the horse thirsty first. Mario Cortes

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Horse proverbs

• It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
• It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. Mexican Proverb
• The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears. Arabian Proverb
• The horse is God’s gift to mankind. Arabian Proverb
• A horse is worth more than riches. Spanish Proverb
• Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.  Chinese Proverb
• Once you have spoken, even the swiftest horse cannot retract your words. Chinese proverb
• A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. Latin Proverb
• Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. Chinese Proverb
• The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. Yiddish Proverb
• Care, and fine stables, makes a good horse. Danish Proverb

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• A camel is a horse designed by a committee.  Alec Issigonis
• A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.  Ian Fleming
• A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says “Hello, why the long face?”
• A lot of horses get distracted; it’s just human nature.  Nick Zito
• A real Centaur: part man part horse’s ass.  Dean Acheson
• A victim of fast women and slow horses.  Epitaph
• A woman needs two animals – the horse of her dreams and a jackass to pay for it.
• Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. Arthur Baer
• Betting : Putting money on a horse to prevent it winning   Frank Richardson
• Black beauty – he’s a dark horse.   Tim Vine
• Centaur: A man with a horse where his pants ought to be.
• Circus: A place where horses ponies and elephants are permitted to see men women and children acting the fool.  Ambrose Bierce
• Employers are like horses — they require management. P.G. Wodehouse
• Fiddle: An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse’s tail on the entrails of a cat.  Ambrose Bierce
• Good producers are as rare as rocking horse doo-doo. Jon Amiel
• He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.  Benjamin Franklin
• Horse racing is animated roulette.  Roger Kahn
• Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. W.C. Fields
• Horse sense is what prevents a woman from becoming a nag.  Jackie Vernon
• Horse: An oatsmobile.
• Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet; they should be the luckiest animals in the world.  Eddie Izzard
• I backed a horse today at 20:1; it came in at twenty past four.  Tommy Cooper
• I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. Mark Twain
• I can make more generals but horses cost money.  Abraham Lincoln
• I didn’t squawk about the steak dear. I merely said I didn’ t see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.  C. Fields
• I played a great horse yesterday; it took seven horses to beat him.  Henny Youngman
• I used to have a job as a pantomime horse but quit while I was a head.  Stewart Francis
• I’d call him a sadistic hippophilic necrophile but that would be beating a dead horse.  Woody Allen
• I’d horsewhip you if I had a horse.  Groucho Marx
• I’m proud of George he’s learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse; what’s worse it was a male horse.  Laura Bush
• I’m so hungry I could eat a horse and chase the rider.
• If a man works like a horse for his money there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.  Marty Allen
• If he fell into a pile of horse shit he’d start looking for a pony.
• If horse racing is the sport of kings then drag racing must be the sport of queens.  Bert Sugar
• If she was cast as Lady Godiva the horse would steal the show.
• If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle. Rita Mae Brown
• If wishes were horses some folks would need a lot of hay.
• If you are riding a high horse there ain’t no way to get down off it gracefully.
• If you want a stable friendship….Get a Horse.
• If you’re a cowboy and you’re dragging a guy behind your horse I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine.  Jack Handey
• In fifty years he never worked a day. To him nine to five was odds on a horse.  Archie Bunker
• In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you’ve just described hell. Charlie Munger
• Irish water polo team. They drowned four horses during the first chukka.
• It doesn’t matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses. Daphne Fielding
• 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
• It’s a lot like nuts and bolts – if the rider’s nuts, the horse bolts! Nicholas Evans
• It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. Adlai E. Stevenson II
• It’s too bad cowboys didn’t eat much pizza back in the old west because I think a good painting would be a cowboy giving his last slice to his horse.  Jack Handey
• Like watching an affair between a mad rocking-horse and a rawhide suitcase.  Noel Coward
• Marry me and I’ll never look at another horse!  Groucho Marx
• Men are generally more careful of the Breed of their Horses and Dogs than of their Children. William Penn, Fruits of Solitude
• Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew their membership at the gym. Janet Evanovich
• Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband.  Lauren Bacall
• My horse was so late getting home he tiptoed into the stable.  Henny Youngman
• My husband says, if I spend one more weekend at a horse show he’ll leave me. Darn…I’ll miss him.
• Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other to be buried. Charles Caleb Colton
• Never think of your car as a cold machine but as a hot-blooded horse.  Juan Manuel Fangio
• On horseback you feel as if you’re moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk. Walter Moers
• One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.  Danny McGoorty
• One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.  Jeffrey Bernard
• Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women; the rest I spent foolishly.  George Raft
• Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.  Groucho Marx
• People on horses look better than they are; people in cars look worse than they are.  Marya Mannes
• Race Track: Where thousands of people can get taken for a ride on the same horse.
• Racehorse: A barn athlete.
• Racehorse: A fast means of redistributing wealth.
• Ride the horse in the direction that it’s going. Werner Erhard
• Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground.
• Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don’t be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him. Mark Twain
• She has a face that belongs to the sea and the wind with large rocking-horse nostrils and teeth that you just know bite an apple every day.  Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
• Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.  Elizabeth Taylor
• Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That’s why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.  Charles M. Russell
• The best way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on it.
• The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.  Henry Adams
• The great thing about racehorses is you don’t need to take them for walks.  Albert Finney
• The horse I bet on was so slow the jockey kept a diary of the trip.  Henny Youngman
• The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady it sounds like a saddle horse.   Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses. James Joyce
• The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse. D. H. Lawrence
• There are lots of reasons to love a horse; sometime it’s no more than the sweet little way he stepped on some asshole’s foot.
• There are more horses’ asses in this world than there are horses.  Costello’s Conclusion
• There are rules about riding a horse but the horse won’t necessarily know them.
• There were three things that Chico was always on – a phone, a horse or a broad.   Groucho Marx
• They say he rides as if he’s part of the horse but they don’t say which part.  Robert E. Sherwood
• They think they can make fuel from horse manure . Now I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.  Billie Holiday
• Those two get on like a horse on fire.
• To ride or not to ride….this is a stupid question. Brandy Michelle
• Use a little of your horse’s sense.  Archie Bunker
• What do you call an Amish guy with his hand up a horse’s ass? A mechanic!
• When you’re young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you’re my age, you splatter.  Roy Rogers
• Whoa!: A brake for horses.
• You can take a horse to water but a pencil must be led.  Stan Laurel
• Your horse’s behavior always seems to depend on the number of people watching you.
• Zebra: A horse behind bars.

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