Horse Quotes: Wisdom and Inspiration from Our Equine Friends

"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen"

George Savile, Politician

"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse"

Ronald Reagan, President

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

Ian Fleming, Author

"Get off your horse and drink your milk"

John Wayne, Actor

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

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

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

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction"

William Blake, Poet

"Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon"

John Madden, Entertainer

"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led"

Stan Laurel, Actor

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"The wildest colts make the best horses"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

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

William Penn, Leader

"What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along"

Harvey Cox, Theologian

"One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him"

Jeffrey Bernard, Journalist

"He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions"

Stephen Leacock, Economist

"You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load"

Paul Bryant, Coach

"Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"A good horse should be seldom spurred"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged"

Ovid, Poet

"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"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians"

George Crook, Soldier

"Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals"

Kyle Chandler, Actor

"So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine"

Dawn French, Comedian

"Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse"

Arthur Baer

"I can make more generals, but horses cost money"

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

Woody Allen, Director

"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries"

Will Rogers, Actor

"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"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Horses make a landscape look beautiful"

Alice Walker, Author

"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse"

Rebecca West, Author

"You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans"

Rachel Weisz, Actress

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