No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
If in another world there is any riding — and God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses — I cannot but think that there will be a soft swishing as of the footsteps of some invisible horse heard occasionally on the familiar trails over which the equestrian statue is to look.
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
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.
A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
Horses lend us the wings we lack.
You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
Good horses make short miles.
Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them
The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study.
When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?
A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.
Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.
Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.
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