Top 100 Quotes About Horses
#1. My mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.
Louise Erdrich
#2. NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.
Arundhati Roy
#3. A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid
#4. Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Samuel Johnson
#5. My horses make very silly faces when I'm preparing their meals.
Martin Clunes
#6. Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
G. Gordon Liddy
#8. Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
Molly Ivins
#9. Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.
Confucius
#10. With horses, there were no guarantees. You worked yourself raw and hoped until your heart hurt just for a little heat in a foreleg to derail everything.
Mara Dabrishus
#11. There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.
Theodore Roosevelt
#12. The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.
Jose Mourinho
#13. I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides.
David Cassidy
#14. THE BARN was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell - as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world.
E.B. White
#15. I would miss the horse. I've never liked walking. If God had meant man to walk he wouldn't have given us horses. Wonderful animals. I think of them as the word escape, covered in hair and with a leg at each corner.
Mark Lawrence
#16. There's so few things men can talk about. If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he doesn't like girls.
Truman Capote
#17. Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
Emily Dickinson
#18. If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.
Warren Buffett
#19. You don't just tell horses, you know. They got minds o' their own, like anybody else.
Anne Perry
#20. Gradually, I came to know my horses intimately. You go through every mood they experience and come to view the world much like a horse.
Tim Cope
#21. Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses.
Dennis Sharpe
#22. My heart thunders like the hooves of a thousand wild horses.
Leylah Attar
#23. As far as horses go, people will ask about one breed versus another. I have to tell you, I really don't have any prejudice one way or another. I treat every horse at face value, how he/she is as an individual.
Buck Brannaman
#24. Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
Julian Assange
#25. I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
Davy Jones
#26. My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
Mark Twain
#27. I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
Halston Sage
#28. Mistakes are only horses in disguise
Ain't no need to ride 'em over
'cause we could not ride them different if we tried
Larry Mahan
#29. So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.
Charles Darwin
#30. Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#31. Did you kill the Fae horses?"
The whuffling stopped. Dragos said in a cautious voice, "Was I not supposed to?"
She shrugged. "It just wasn't their fault."
"If it helps any, I was hungry and ate one.
Thea Harrison
#32. There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.
Tommy Lee
#33. If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.
Catherine Crook De Camp
#34. We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.
William Henry Ashley
#35. I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
Anton Chekhov
#36. Fella had a team of horses, had to use'em to plow an' cultivate an' mow, wouldn't think a turnin' 'em out to starve when they wasn't workin'.
Them's horses - we're men.
John Steinbeck
#37. The stallion stared in my direction and bared his teeth. Now horses were giving me crap.
Ilona Andrews
#38. Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.
Frederick Pollock
#39. Winter is our time. They shut up their cities for the cold months. They put their horses in stables and sit around great fires in enormous houses of stone. If you want a bearskin, do you attack in summer when it is strong and fast, or cut its throat as it sleeps?
Conn Iggulden
#41. Okay," I said slowly, "but what the hell would you mate a horse with to get a unicorn, because I don't see horses and narwhales doing the dirty boogie.
Jonathan Maberry
#42. They were carried out. He was a tyrant, not so much in the quality of the work he demanded, as in the quantity. There were some thirty horses in the yard. The head lad cared
Dick Francis
#43. Horses get anxious when their expectations are not met.
Wendy Williams
#45. I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.
Anson Mount
#46. I slipped my hand into hers. A strange and unfamiliar feeling ran through me. It felt like the ocean, like sunlight, like horses. Like love. I searched my mind and found the name for it. Joy.
Kimberley Brubaker Bradley
#47. You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.
Chris LeDoux
#48. Cane's kisses were phenomenal. Better than chocolate, horses, and Channing Tatum rolled into one.
Rachel Harris
#50. In sixth and seventh grade, my two best friends and I pretended to be horses. Every day after school, we would gallop around, whinnying and stamping our hooves and tossing our manes - for hours.
Tyne Daly
#51. With one behind, you cannot sit on two horses.
Lisa Kleypas
#52. The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank.
Janet Morris
#53. There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.
Chris Van Allsburg
#54. Lucky for me, all four of his hooves missed my body as they found the ground. I picked my head up, thankful I didn't get stomped, and watched the steer run off along the fence. Mental note: cows are not like horses. Don't let the big brown eyes fool you.
Brittney Joy
#55. I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them.
William McNamara
#56. If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
Otis Redding
#57. I lead horses to water and if they don't drink, then I drown them.
Mike Brown
#58. Horse People may be heads of state or professionally unemployed in their private lives, but horses are their passion, as Jerusalem was the passion of the soldier in some ancient crusade. The cult of the horse as their idol is as central to their lives as cocaine is to some and applause is to others.
Judith Krantz
#59. It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
John Phillips
#60. This showed once again that everyone had something different to lose in this battle. Some were concerned for their lives, and some for those they cared most about: rays, sea horses, even the chickens that ran free in the streets of the city because they couldn't all be caught in time.
Kai Meyer
#61. I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful.
Tommy Lee
#63. In the 1970s, I bought some cheap horses, then decided that if I was going to be in it, I was going to go big time. So in 2001, Bill Casner, a partner with me in Excel, and I bought a breeding farm, WinStar Farm, together.
Kenny Troutt
#64. Unicorns aren't magical and beautiful. They're just predatory horses that have horns and love to eat virgins.
Delilah S. Dawson
#65. To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names
Bohumil Hrabal
#66. Nothing smelled worse than the death of another human being. Not horses or cattle or rotten whales washed onto a beach. Human death was the smell of what hid in the future, waiting for you.
Robert Crais
#67. When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted ... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated.
Michel De Montaigne
#68. Classified ads of the Ku Klux Klan: Tired of all the games? Do you like racial purity, horses and dressing up like a ghost?
Dana Gould
#69. I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
Rachel Weisz
#70. I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
Mahmoud Darwish
#71. If our eyes were not blinded by the cataracts of the flesh - we would see horses of fire, and chariots of fire, round about the Lord's beloved.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#72. I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children, because you only work eight hours a day and I love working with animals. Animals have an honesty that human beings reach to find in their lives at the best of times.
Colin Farrell
#73. Oh, my. The Marques of Jonesborough requests that I join him for a ride in his phaeton this afternoon; only he fears my beauty will blind his horses." The end of the sentence was swallowed by Alex's own disbelieving giggle. "Surely he can't think I would take that seriously.
Sarah MacLean
#74. The Rabia Balkhi, registered to Captain Eric Khan out of Pallas, was still just goods and people heading into the frontier to stake a claim. Fewer horses, maybe, but more fusion reactors.
James S.A. Corey
#75. I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!"
"My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow ... "
"Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!
Terry Pratchett
#76. We are like horses that must be broken; basically that one should submit to a pastor even if he is wrong.
John Bevere
#77. Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great nation. They shall hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel and will not show mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses every one put in array, like a man to the battle.
Conn Iggulden
#78. Zane rolled his eyes. "Galloping crazies."
Ty squeezed his hand. "Well, you said you liked horses.
Abigail Roux
#79. I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.
Charles Bukowski
#80. 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
#81. Shit of ten horses," his twin said in the Old Language. "The new aftershave of the lessers," Phury muttered, rubbing his eyes.
J.R. Ward
#82. Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.
Raymond Cattell
#83. Hearts are like horses. They come and they go against bit or spur.
Rudyard Kipling
#84. I hate luxury. I exercise moderation ... It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.
Genghis Khan
#85. The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.
Joey Adams
#86. You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#87. Tug looked nervously at his master.
Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.
John Flanagan
#88. I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#89. Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.
Terry Pratchett
#90. 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
#91. I'd purchased it before my trip to the gay rodeo with a bunch of friends many moons ago. Many horses had been saved that weekend as many cowboys had been ridden. ...
Ethan Day
#92. Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.
Paul Engle
#93. Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.
Richard Whately
#94. Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle
Robert Louis Stevenson
#95. Jacob had seen too many horses whipped half to death to find anything romantic about horse-drawn carriages,
Cornelia Funke
#96. The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world - - the cowboy songs of Texas and the West - - are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.
J. Frank Dobie
#97. Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.
George Crook
#99. England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
John Florio
#100. Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.
Ralph Moody
