Horse Quotes

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  A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  Ovid

  Motivational, Running, Catching On

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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  No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

  Winston Churchill

  Animal, Cowboy, Riding

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• When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow.

  Monty Roberts

  Maxims, Greater

  Monty Roberts (2001). “Horse Sense for People: Using the Gentle Wisdom of the Join-up Technique to Enrich Our Relationships at Home and at Work”, Viking Press

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• A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

  Pam Brown

  Beautiful, Dream, Strong

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• Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

  Alice Walker

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Looks

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• For God took a handful of blizzard snow, blew on it and created the horse.

  Elyne Mitchell

  Snow, Blizzard, Handful

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• Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.

  Monty Roberts

  Strong, Language, Silent

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• Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Games, Hobbies

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• Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

  Paulo Coelho

  Self Control, Able, Emotion

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  When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

  Winston Churchill

  Equestrian, Equine, Seats

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  No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

  Herman Melville

  Dog, Philosopher, Canine

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.222, Herman Melville

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• To me, horses and freedom are synonymous.

  Veryl Goodnight

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• There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Secret, Riding, Equestrian

  'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 31

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• A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.

  Rebecca Carroll

  Dream, Childhood, Ponies

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• 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

  Wind, Want, Said

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• In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Inspiration, Riding, Equine

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• You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.

  Will Rogers

  Gambling, People, Broke

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• A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

  Thomas Fuller

  Running, Passion, Men

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• The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspiration, Movement, Action

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Minutes, Five, Hard

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• In training horses, one trains himself

  Antoine de Pluvinel

  Training, Train

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• A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.

  Federico Tesio

  Inspiration, Heart, Character

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• His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse.

  William Shakespeare

  Bidding, Countenance, Monarchs

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1739, BookCaps Study Guides

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• No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

  C. S. Lewis

  Riding, Practice Makes Perfect, Teach

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 3)”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• A Woman never looks better than on horseback

  Jane Austen

  Looks, Horseback

  Jane Austen (2001). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.93, Broadview Press

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