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For all of you who love horses we thought you might enjoy some great quotes about horses from some famous and some not so well known folks.  Perhaps one or two of these will become part of your regular speech.  So. . . here goes!

APRIL 2014

 

“When horses suffer, we suffer.  When horses die, we die.  When horses die, a little bit of each of us dies.  We are connected because we are Horse People.”  - Frank Solano, Endurance Rider, US Navy SEAL

MARCH 2014

"Don't get between a woman and her horse. She'll take the horse every time." - Male Equinophobic

FEBRUARY 2014

“The strongest halter on earth is the horse’s mind.”   - John Lyons

JANUARY 2014

“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”  ― John Adams

DECEMBER 2013

"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."― Elizabeth Taylor

NOVEMBER 2013

"A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse".  Anna Sewell in Black Beauty

OCTOBER 2013

"The horse. Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity, a willing servant, yet no slave."  Ronald Duncan

SEPTEMBER 2013

"A perfect book on riding could be written only by a horse.".              

Vladimir S. Littauer  in "America's Horse" magazine             

AUGUST 2013

“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

JULY 2012

“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

JUNE 2013

 “The canter is a cure for every evil.”   Benjamin Disraeli

MAY 2013
 
“You ride the horse you lead." John Lyons 

APRIL 2013

“A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.” Will Rogers

MARCH 2013

Horses can't talk, but they can speak if you listen.  Unknown

FEBRUARY  2013

 “It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! ” Nicholas Evans

JANUARY 2013

 “There is no secret so close as that between a rider and her horse.” Robert Smith

DECEMBER 2012

“When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it's a sure sign that the animal has somehow outfoxed them”.
Tom Dorrance, True Unity: Willing Communication Between Horse & Human

NOVEMBER 2012

“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”
W.C. Fields

OCTOBER 2012

“A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.”
Gerald Raftery

 

SEPTEMBER 2012

“Changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!”
Eric Jerome Dickey, Liar's Game

 

AUGUST 2012

“When I ride a horse, it just makes my blood wiggle!”
Kim Meeder, Bridge Called Hope

 

JULY 2012

“You don’t just throw a life away just ‘cause he’s banged up a little.” Tom Smith, Seabiscuit’s trainer

 

JUNE 2012

“In riding a horse, we borrow freedom”.
Helen Thompson

 

MAY 2012

“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 will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

APRIL  2012

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
Henry Ford

 

MARCH  2012

“One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”
Dale Carnegie

 

FEBRUARY 2012

"Horses know nothing of money, status, beauty, or accomplishment.  Horses see only our hearts, and they accept or reject us based on what they find within. In short, horses do naturally what humans can pass a lifetime without ever mastering."

Mary Midkiff, as quoted in The Denver Press

 

JANUARY 2012

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."   Unknown

 

DECEMBER 2011

 

"All that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse.  All else is squabble."
Charles Bukowski

 

 

NOVEMBER 2011

"Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
" —
Alice Walker

 

 

OCTOBER 2011

"To be loved by a horse should fill us with awe, for we have not deserved it."
Marion Garretty

 

 

SEPTEMBER 2011

"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

 

 

AUGUST 2011
"But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses"
Jane Smiley (A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
 
 
 

JULY 2011

"He 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 (Winter's Tale)

 

 

JUNE 2011:

"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man."
Winston S. Churchill

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