Quotes About:  Horses

Alice Walker ⇒

Horses make a landscape look beautiful

Al Mutannabbi ⇒

If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.

Stanley Harrison ⇒

Somewhere in time’s own space
There must be some sweet pastured place
Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow
Some paradise where horses go,
For by the love that guides my pen
I know great horses live again.

From the movie Separate Tables ⇒

People have always cared me a bit, you see – they’re so complicated. I suppose that’s why I prefer horses.

Herman Melville ⇒

There are unknown worlds of knowledge in brutes; and whenever you mark a horse, or a dog, with a peculiarly mild, calm, deep-seated eye, be sure he is an Aristotle or a Kant, tranquilly speculating upon the mysteries in man. No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. They see through us at a glance. And after all, what is a horse but a species of four-footed dumb man, in a leathern overall, who happens to live upon oats, and toils for his masters, half-requited or abused, like the biped hewers of wood and drawers of water? But there is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. As for those majestic, magisterial truck-horses of the docks, I would as soon think of striking a judge on the bench, as to lay violent hand upon their holy hides.

Arabian Proverb ⇒

The horse is God’s gift to mankind.

Author Unknown ⇒

In my opinion, a horse is the animal to have. Eleven-hundred pounds of raw muscle, power, grace, and sweat between your legs – it’s something you just can’t get from a pet hamster.

Pat Parelli ⇒

If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.

Attributed to the Claddaugh Gypsies of Galway ⇒

Gipsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark.

Author Unknown ⇒

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