Quotes about horses
Interesting quotes
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
No heaven can heaven be, if my horse isn't there to welcome me.
Author Unknown
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom.
Sharon Ralls Lemon
To see the wind's power, the rain's cleansing and the sun's radiant life, one need only to look at the horse.
Author Unknown
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. He trots the air, the earth sings when he touches it.
William Shakespeare
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
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.
Author Unknown
The way to heaven is on horseback.
Author Unknown
I've spent most of my life riding horses. The rest I've just wasted.
Author Unknown
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
To many, the words love, hope and dreams are synonymous with horses.
Author Unknown
A true horseman does not look at the horse with his eyes, he looks at his horse with his heart.
Author Unknown
In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
Helen Thompson
A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.
Author Unknown
Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls. They give us hope!
Toni Robinson
One can get in a car and see what man has made. One must get on a horse to see what God has made.
Author Unknown
The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.
Arabian Proverb
If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.
Author Unknown
Wherever man has left his footprints in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we find the hoofprint of a horse beside it.
John Trotwood Moore
To understand the soul of a horse is the closest human beings can come to knowing perfection.
Author Unknown
For one to fly, one needs only to take the reins.
Melissa James
His 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.
Author Unknown
Horse thou art truly a creature, for thou fliest without wings and conquorest without sword.
Author Unknown
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
A good rider can hear his horse speak to him. A great rider can hear his horse whisper.
Author Unknown
Horses lend us the wings we lack.
Pam Brown
A dog may be man's best friend...but the horse wrote history.
Author Unknown
The horse. Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing servant, yet never a slave.
Ronald Duncan
Bread may feed my body, but my horse feeds my soul.
Author Unknown
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
Sir Winston Churchill
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
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.
Author Unknown
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Herman Melville
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.
Author Unknown
If your horse says, "No", you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.
Pat Parelli
I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Ask me to show you poetry in motion and I will show you a horse.
Author Unknown
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
R. S. Surtees
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
The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse.
Author Unknown
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
One must think when looking at a horse in motion, that it hears music inside its head.
Author Unknown
In their eyes shine stars of wisdom and courage to guide men to the heavens.
Jodie Mitchell
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.
Author Unknown
The world is best viewed through the ears of a horse.
Author Unknown
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
Winston Churchill
When the Almighty put hoofs on the wind and a bridle on the lightning, He called it a horse.
Author Unknown
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
John Steinbeck
To see a horse is to see an angel on earth.
Author Unknown
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.
Author Unknown
Let a horse whisper in your ear and breathe on your heart. You will never regret it.
Author Unknown
To ride on a horse is to fly without wings.
Author Unknown
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
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
A canter is a cure for every evil.
Benjamin Disraeli
Before I loved horses, I had nothing to live for. Now I love horses and can't stop seeing things to live for.
Author Unknown
One who believes that he has mastered the art of horsemanship has not yet begun to understand the horse.
Author Unknown
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
Sir Winston Churchill
Stay away from a horse long enough and you'll start tapping your fingers to the beat of a trot.
Author Unknown
On the back of a horse you will find Paradise.
Stella A. Walker
A horse in the wind - a perfect symphony.
Author Unknown
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 then a loan.
Pam Brown
In the steady gaze of the horse shines a silent eloquence that speaks of love and loyalty, strength and courage. It is the window that reveals to us how willing is his spirit, how generous his heart.
Author Unknown
His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.
Jerry Shulman
The horse you get off is not the same as the horse you got on. It is your job as a rider to ensure that as often as possible, the change is for the better.
Author Unknown
There are many wonderful places in the world, but one of my favorite places is on the back of my horse.
Rolf Kopfle
A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.
Rebecca Carroll
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
God forbid that I should go to any heaven where there are no horses.
R. B. Cunningham-Graham
1917 letter to Theodore Roosevelt
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.
Author Unknown
A horse doesn't care how much you know until he knows how much you care.
Pat Parelli
Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.
Pam Brown
When riding a horse we leave our fear, troubles, and sadness behind on the ground.
Judi Carlson
Dance above ground, never descending. Grace incarnate. Passion on hooves.
Author Unknown
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.
Author Unknown
In the trojan horse story man entered and touched the inside of a horse. But to see a horse in high spirits is to have the horse enter and touch the inside of a man.
Author Unknown
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.
John Tyler's epitaph for his horse
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
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
Cynthia Garrett
No heaven can heaven be, if my horse isn't there to welcome me.
Author Unknown
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom.
Sharon Ralls Lemon
To see the wind's power, the rain's cleansing and the sun's radiant life, one need only to look at the horse.
Author Unknown
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. He trots the air, the earth sings when he touches it.
William Shakespeare
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
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.
Author Unknown
The way to heaven is on horseback.
Author Unknown
I've spent most of my life riding horses. The rest I've just wasted.
Author Unknown
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
To many, the words love, hope and dreams are synonymous with horses.
Author Unknown
A true horseman does not look at the horse with his eyes, he looks at his horse with his heart.
Author Unknown
In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
Helen Thompson
A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.
Author Unknown
Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls. They give us hope!
Toni Robinson
One can get in a car and see what man has made. One must get on a horse to see what God has made.
Author Unknown
The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.
Arabian Proverb
If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.
Author Unknown
Wherever man has left his footprints in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we find the hoofprint of a horse beside it.
John Trotwood Moore
To understand the soul of a horse is the closest human beings can come to knowing perfection.
Author Unknown
For one to fly, one needs only to take the reins.
Melissa James
His 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.
Author Unknown
Horse thou art truly a creature, for thou fliest without wings and conquorest without sword.
Author Unknown
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
A good rider can hear his horse speak to him. A great rider can hear his horse whisper.
Author Unknown
Horses lend us the wings we lack.
Pam Brown
A dog may be man's best friend...but the horse wrote history.
Author Unknown
The horse. Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing servant, yet never a slave.
Ronald Duncan
Bread may feed my body, but my horse feeds my soul.
Author Unknown
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
Sir Winston Churchill
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
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.
Author Unknown
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Herman Melville
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.
Author Unknown
If your horse says, "No", you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.
Pat Parelli
I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Ask me to show you poetry in motion and I will show you a horse.
Author Unknown
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
R. S. Surtees
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
The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse.
Author Unknown
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
One must think when looking at a horse in motion, that it hears music inside its head.
Author Unknown
In their eyes shine stars of wisdom and courage to guide men to the heavens.
Jodie Mitchell
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.
Author Unknown
The world is best viewed through the ears of a horse.
Author Unknown
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
Winston Churchill
When the Almighty put hoofs on the wind and a bridle on the lightning, He called it a horse.
Author Unknown
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
John Steinbeck
To see a horse is to see an angel on earth.
Author Unknown
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.
Author Unknown
Let a horse whisper in your ear and breathe on your heart. You will never regret it.
Author Unknown
To ride on a horse is to fly without wings.
Author Unknown
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
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
A canter is a cure for every evil.
Benjamin Disraeli
Before I loved horses, I had nothing to live for. Now I love horses and can't stop seeing things to live for.
Author Unknown
One who believes that he has mastered the art of horsemanship has not yet begun to understand the horse.
Author Unknown
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
Sir Winston Churchill
Stay away from a horse long enough and you'll start tapping your fingers to the beat of a trot.
Author Unknown
On the back of a horse you will find Paradise.
Stella A. Walker
A horse in the wind - a perfect symphony.
Author Unknown
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 then a loan.
Pam Brown
In the steady gaze of the horse shines a silent eloquence that speaks of love and loyalty, strength and courage. It is the window that reveals to us how willing is his spirit, how generous his heart.
Author Unknown
His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.
Jerry Shulman
The horse you get off is not the same as the horse you got on. It is your job as a rider to ensure that as often as possible, the change is for the better.
Author Unknown
There are many wonderful places in the world, but one of my favorite places is on the back of my horse.
Rolf Kopfle
A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.
Rebecca Carroll
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
God forbid that I should go to any heaven where there are no horses.
R. B. Cunningham-Graham
1917 letter to Theodore Roosevelt
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.
Author Unknown
A horse doesn't care how much you know until he knows how much you care.
Pat Parelli
Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.
Pam Brown
When riding a horse we leave our fear, troubles, and sadness behind on the ground.
Judi Carlson
Dance above ground, never descending. Grace incarnate. Passion on hooves.
Author Unknown
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.
Author Unknown
In the trojan horse story man entered and touched the inside of a horse. But to see a horse in high spirits is to have the horse enter and touch the inside of a man.
Author Unknown
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.
John Tyler's epitaph for his horse
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
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