Top 100 Horse Quotes
#1. The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.
Steve Aylett
#2. Any decent jock could ride her. But familiarity with a horse gave you an edge.
Jane Schwartz
#3. We have a fair on our farm every year - a gymkhana and a dog show and a funfair and a heavy-horse show. It was my idea. Be careful what you wish for - it's a monster.
Martin Clunes
#4. Anyway ... she knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a horse who knows a goat who knows another horse-
Rick Riordan
#6. GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.
Ambrose Bierce
#7. There is nothing like going on a stage. You are in the saddle, and you've got to ride that horse, and there's nothing more thrilling and exhilarating.
Beth Grant
#8. Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.
Shirley Jackson
#9. I grew up riding all my life, so I was very comfy on a horse, thank God. Although I'd never ridden ... with sword in my hand.
Joshua Sasse
#10. May I offer you some advice?"
"I'd rather you offered me a fast horse and a head start," Richard said with a tight smile. "But I'll take the advice, too.
Sharon Kay Penman
#11. The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety.
Leo Tolstoy
#13. But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
Nathaniel Smith
#14. I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love for the form and different aspects of the horse. Then I thought about the bit, halter, and bridle in terms of how we harness and ride this animal. There were a lot of interesting elements to explore.
Jill Greenberg
#16. But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.
Josh Billings
#17. What is a unicorn without his horn?" (Antonella)
"A white horse?" (Adam)
Antonella smiled. "A very unhappy white horse.
Mark Mills
#18. It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.
Jesse Owens
#19. Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God.
Guru Nanak
#20. Burn stepped up to the side of the horse and pulled Sora from Crash's arms. Crash was reluctant to let go.
T.L. Shreffler
#21. I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.
Allan Hamilton
#24. I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually, when I'm directing or producing, I've written it myself. I'm not really trying to get on some big horse that's running through town. I just make my own stuff.
Mike White
#25. I quickly scrawled my number and Colt across the paper and placed it in her palm. She looked down at my number and smiled.
"Colt. Like a horse?"
"Like the gun, sweetheart." I winked and her face brightened with a nervous smile.
Teresa Mummert
#26. Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.
Bill Vaughan
#27. We ought to call it something,' said Banokles thoughtfully. 'We can't just keep calling it "that big bastard horse". It ought to have a name.' 'What do you suggest?' - 'Arse Face.
David Gemmell
#28. Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
Taylor Dayne
#29. It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
E.B. White
#30. The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.
Horace
#32. Allen Ginsberg instructs: "First thought, best thought." Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft horse.
Clayton Eshleman, laughing, said, "'First thought best thought' is not 'First word best word ' Ginsberg does rewrite. I'm sure he does.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#33. All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?
Max Lucado
#35. A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Thomas Fuller
#37. Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.
Mary Karr
#38. In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.
Bikram Choudhury
#39. Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.
Buck Brannaman
#40. It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!
Nicholas Evans
#41. When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.
Patrick O'Brian
#42. My dream was to ride a horse from Mongolia to Hungary, 10,000 km across the great Eurasian Steppe, and in doing so, come to understand the nomadic cultures that have presided there for thousands of years.
Tim Cope
#43. [On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.
Katharine Whitehorn
#44. So the coward will dare on the gallant horse
What he never would dare alone,
Because he exults in a borrowed force,
And a hardihood not his own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
#45. I'd be happier on a horse," Makin said.
"I'd be happier on a giant mountain goat," I said. "One that shat diamonds. Until we find some, we're walking.
Mark Lawrence
#46. So why are you called Horse?" "Cause I'm hung like one," he replied, smirking.
Joanna Wylde
#47. I have way too many hobbies. I play guitar, and my buddies and I record music in a studio in my house. I have a couple of vintage Jeeps I'm always working on, fixing up. And I ride horses - I grew up on a horse ranch - and play basketball. I need to cut back on my hobbies so I can work more.
Riley Smith
#48. If you ask most trainers who have ridden which pressure is greater - watching your horse or riding it - they will tell you it is harder watching it because you have no control over what happens.
Tony McCoy
#49. Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.
Paul Engle
#50. The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.
William Browne
#52. 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.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
#53. Kyle shook his head. "The first ride is for you." He lifted her up and she sat on the rose horse. He stood beside
Barbara Cool Lee
#54. Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. Anger is like
A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
Self-mettle tires him.
William Shakespeare
#56. Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!
Walter Isaacson
#57. made Weary sick to be ditched. When Weary was ditched, he would find somebody who was even more unpopular than himself, and he would horse around with that person for a while, pretending to be friendly. And then he would find some pretext for beating the shit out of him. It
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#58. Jacob had seen too many horses whipped half to death to find anything romantic about horse-drawn carriages,
Cornelia Funke
#59. If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.
Jeremy Irvine
#60. I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?
Jeremy Paxman
#61. You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.
Malcolm Turnbull
#62. You look like a horse in a man costume
Dylan Moran
#63. Sometimes I want to ride you like a wild horse, and bring you to the taming - did you know that? I can do it, you know I can. Drag you over the edge and drain you to a gasping husk. I can drive you to the edge of collapse and sometimes I delight in it,
Diana Gabaldon
#64. Never look a gift horse in the magazine well.
D.A. Roberts
#66. A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
Henry David Thoreau
#68. Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.
Darrell Royal
#69. If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.
Newt Gingrich
#70. Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.
Allen Ginsberg
#71. Hard to feel confident when you're surrounded by horse-sized wolves.
- Emmett Cullen
Stephenie Meyer
#72. I'll go get the horse and buggy," you'll say. And I'll say, "But I thought we were taking the hovercraft?
David Levithan
#73. As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
Christine Keeler
#74. If one person tells you you're a horse, they're crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, there's a conspiracy afoot. If 10 people tell you you're a horse, it's time to buy a saddle." The point is that if several people are telling you the same thing, there is probably some truth in it.
Jack Canfield
#75. People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.
Stella McCartney
#76. To use a horse to show that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse ...
Zhuangzi
#77. Training a horse is above all feeling and trying, according to what you feel, to help the horse and not to force him.
Nuno Oliveira
#78. She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
Jonathan Safran Foer
#79. I got a horse for my wife. I thought it was a fair swap.
Bob Monkhouse
#80. I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding ... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.
Gwendoline Christie
#81. If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.
Edward Abbey
#82. Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings.
Mark Twain
#83. The neck in front of her came up. The head swivelled 180 degrees and the horse looked at Kin with bright insectile eyes.
'YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND,' it said inside Kin's head.
'Hell!'
'THOSE ARE NOT MEANINGFUL CO-ORDINATES.
Terry Pratchett
#84. You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
Edie Campbell
#85. No damsel was ever in more distress, no dray horse more flogged, no defenseless child more drunkenly abused than the English language today. And
Robert Hartwell Fiske
#86. Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#87. You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon as you start riding horses seriously, you're being disciplined on a daily basis about how ignorant you are and what there is left for you to learn.
Jane Smiley
#88. This man was different from all others; he was forbidden fruit, the outsider. Her mother had trained her well, but she had never told her what to do if a man set her heart to throbbing like the hooves of a runaway horse.
Constance O'Banyon
#89. If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
W. H. Auden
#90. There is one principle that should never be abandoned, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This is the basic, most important principle to be preserved in equitation.
Alois Podhajsky
#91. Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.
Paul Shepard
#92. I'll drive you home."
"On your white horse?"
"In my red truck.
Rainbow Rowell
#93. The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Stendhal
#94. I'm very comfortable with horses. I love horses and I have grown up around farm-hands. There's something very universal about anyone who's on horseback night and day. When you get off that horse, you are still walking as if there's still a horse between your legs.
Heath Ledger
#95. You are a spitfire of a woman, do you know that? You remind me of a horse that hasn't been broken yet. All skittish and full of wild energy."
"Are you for real?" Her jaw fell open. "Did you just compare me to a horse?
Sara Humphreys
#96. The rampant black horse that had adorned Baracca's Spad came to mark the planes of the 91st Fighter Squadriglia - and the automobiles of Enzo Ferrari.
Lee B. Kennett
#97. The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.
H.L. Mencken
#98. I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.
Marie Dressler
#99. To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#100. Oh, good, Pestilence is free, said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other statue in the place, and it had always put Karou in mind of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, sowing plaque with one outstretched arm.
Laini Taylor
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