"I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse"

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment"

"There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress"

"The wildest colts make the best horses"

"If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse"

"Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest"

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

"A good horse should be seldom spurred"

"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children"

"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse"