Horses Quotes and Sayings

Posted by Brian

Gipsy gold does not chink and glitter.  It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark. – Attributed to the Claddaugh Gypsies of Galway

In riding a horse we borrow freedom. – Helen Thomson

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

I go about looking at horses and cattle.  They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young.  I am sick with envy of them. – Sherwood Anderson

A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot. – John Steinbeck

Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb.

A woman needs two animals – the horse of her dreams and a jackass to pay for it. – Author Unknown

A dog may be man’s best friend, but the horse wrote history. – Author Unknown

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

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction. – Cowboy saying

It’s always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. – Author Unknown

Even an E-type Jaguar looks merely flash beside a really smart pony and trap. – Marion C. Garretty

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 Raferty

O! for a horse with wings! – William Shakespeare

To me, horses and freedom are synonymous. – Veryl Goodnight

Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it. – John Moore

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. – Yiddish Proverb

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

Riding:  The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground. – Author Unknown

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

A pony is a childhood dream, a horse is an adulthood treasure. – Rebecca Carroll

God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses. – R.B. Cunninghame Graham

Feeling down? Saddle up. – Author Unknown

I’d rather have a goddam horse.  A horse is at least human, for God’s sake. – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! – William Shakespeare

Honor lies in the mane of a horse. – Herman Melville

My dear, I don’t care what they do, so long as they don’t do it in thestreets and frighten the horses.attributed to Mrs. Patrick Campbell

A good horse should be seldom spurred. – Thomas Fuller

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.


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