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HORSE
QUOTATIONS
| "Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the
dark days of mourning - the faithful horse has been with us always."
Elizabeth Cotton
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| "Machines have about as much warmth as a cube of ice. And
that is why the horse is still part of our lives and will live on.
He was here millions of years before man came upon the earth, and if the
cycle is completed, he may still be thundering across the world long after
man has vanished."
Marguerite Henry
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| Tell a Gelding, ask a mare, discuss it with a stallion.
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| What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age.
French Proverb
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| "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, b. 1928
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| "If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs,
their true beauty is hidden from you"
Al Mutannabbi, 9th century A.D.
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| "There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for
the inside of a man."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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| "...This most noble beast is the most beautiful, the swiftest and
of the highest courage of domesticated animals. His long mane and
tail adorn and beautify him. He is of a fiery temperament, but good
tempered, obedient, docile and well-mannered."
Pedro Garcia Conde, 1685
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| "Where in this wide world can [a person] find nobility without pride,
friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace
is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without
servility, he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful,
nothing less violent; there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient."
Ronald Duncan from 'To The Horse'
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| "In riding a horse, we borrow freedom."
Helen Thomson, b. 1943
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| "The sight of [that pony] did something to me I've never quite
been able to explain. He has more than termendous strength and speed
and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming."
Walt Morey
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| "To be loved by a horse, or by any animal, should fill us with awe
- for we have not deserved it."
Marion C. Garretty, b. 1917
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What delight
To back the flying steed that challenges
The wind for speed! - seems native more of air
Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire!
Whose soul in his task, turns labour into sport!
Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now!
He takes away my breath - He makes me reel!
I touch not earth - I see not - hear not - all
Is ecstasy of motion!
James Sheridan Knowles
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| "Horses do change, you know; a lot of the ... ponies really give
the able-bodied grooms a hard time, but if you put a disable child or adult
on their back they're as gentle as lambs. I don't know what it is:
they seem to sense something."
Jackie Croome
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| A canter is a cure for every evil."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81)
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| "A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks
- but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan."
Pam Brown, b. 1928
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| Here's to you, Stocking and Star and Blaze! You brought me
all that the best could bring - Health and Mirth and the Merriest Days.
In the Open Fields and the Woodland Ways - And what can I do in return
but sing. A song or two in your praise!
Will H. Ogilvie
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| "The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears"
Arabian Proverb
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| "Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and
more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing all
countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners
cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul.
Edward Plantagenet, Duke of York
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| "God forbid that I should go to any heaven where there are no horses."
R. B. Cunningham-Graham
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| "We have almost forgotten how strange a thing it is that so huge
and powerful and intelligent an animal as a horse should allow another,
and far more feeble animal, to ride upon its back."
Peter Gray, b. 1928
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| "Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse,
the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of
action ..."
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
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| "We have been companions now for centuries. I rode you in
high festival to the Parthenon and to the edges of the unknown world under
the Shadow of the Eagles. Together we re-took the Holy Places, endured
the horrors of the crossing to the Crimea. You took me to adventure and
to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. |
| And now I stand at the gate of the paddock, watching you run in
an esctasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally,
beside."
Pam Brown, b. 1928
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| "A horse is worth more than riches."
Spanish Proverb
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| "Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun
and neighs in the dark."
Saying of the Claddagh Gipsies of Galway
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| "Thou shalt be for Man a source of happiness and wealth; thy back
shall be a seat of honour, and thy belly of riches; every grain of barley
given thee shall purchase indulgence for the sinner."
The Koran
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| "The horse is God's gift to mankind."
Arabian Proverb
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| "What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse
between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every
stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound,
while the wind beat in my face and whistled past my ears."
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
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| "As I ride, as I ride, Ne'er has spur my swift horse plied, Yet
his hide, streaked and pied, As I ride, as I ride, - Zebra-footed, ostrich-thighed
- How has vied stride with stride. As I ride, as I ride!"
Robert Browning
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| "Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'."
Pam Brown, b. 1928
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| My horse with a mane made of short rainbows. My horse with
ears made of round corn. My horse with eyes made of big stars.
My horse with a head made of mixed waters. My horse with teeth made
of white shell. The long rainbow is in his mouth for a bridle and
with it I guide him. When my horse neighs, different-coloured horses
follow. When my horse neighs, different-coloured sheep follow.
I am wealthy because of him. Before me peaceful, Behind me peaceful,
Under me peaceful, Over me peaceful - Peaceful voice when he neighs.
I am everlasting and peaceful I stand for my horse.
from Louis Watchman's version of the Navajo "Horse
Story"
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| "With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils, never stretched
by pain, Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein, And feet that iron never
shod, And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod. A thousand horses - the
wild - the free - Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering
on."
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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| I remember the plough horses. Big, beautiful, plodding fellows,
I loved them so. Picture the scene: A pale blue morning, glistening
at the edges, and a farmer ploughing with his horse-team. A fragile
autumn sun glinting on plough and harness. Grey and white seagulls
flying over. And the horses. Filled-out, strong-muscled, sleek with
sweat, the long fetlock hairs about their hoofs creamed in a flurry of
endeavour as the plough slices deep in the earth, cutting straight and
true behind them. And the clean, crumbling earth lying in a dark
ribbon by the fresh furrow beside the farmer's striding feet."
Roy Bolitho
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| "When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from
falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts,
and starvation, he had lost what made him so beautiful and free...
One out of every three mustangs captured in south west Texas was expected
to die before they were tamed. The process often broke the spirits
of the other two."
J. Frank Dobl
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| "An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm
correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires."
Christilot Hanson Boylen
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| "There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his
horse."
Robert Smith Surtees (1803-64)
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| "The rhythm of the ride carried them on and on, and she knew that
the horse was as eager as she, as much in love with the speed and air and
freedom."
Georgess McHargue
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| "A good horse and a good rider are only so in mutual trust."
H.M.E.
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| "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
in the open."
Gerald Raftery
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"It was a great treat to us to be turned out into the home paddock
or the old orchard; the grass was so cool and soft to our feet, the air
is so sweet, and the freedom to do as we like was so pleasant; to gallop,
to lie down, and roll over on our backs, or to nibble the sweet grass.
Then it was a very good time for talking, as we stood together under the
shade of the large chestnut tree."
Anna Swell (1820-78)
from "Black Beauty"
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| "Again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth.
All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me - the snort of the horses
as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle
of the irons as we flung the saddles over their backs - little sounds of
no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of the memory."
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
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| "The hooves of the horse! - Oh! witching and sweet Is
the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; No whisper of lover, no
trilling of bird, Can stir me as hooves of the horses have stirred."
Will H. Ogilvie
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| "She was not afraid, immediately. The sheer exhilaration of
the horse's speed thrilled her, but his strength was ominous. When
she looked down she saw his shoulders moving with the smooth rhythm of
steam-pistons; she saw his black, shining hoofs thrown out, thudding the
hard turf, and felt the great eagerness coming up through her own body.
She knew that she could never stop him, if he decided he did not want to
stop. She saw the hedge ahead of them, and the first stab of real
fear contracted her stomach. She gathered her reins up tight, and
pulled hard. It made no difference at all. 'Don't panic,' she
thought, but the panic was in her, whether she wanted it or not."
K. M. Peyton from Flambards'
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| The ability and intelligence is remarkable... Prince was able
to walk the length of the furow, between the growing potatoes, and when
he was done you might never guess that he had passed that way. so sure
and careful was every footfall."
Paul Heiney
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| "A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never
throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master
he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck,
and bid the world admire his beauties... and when he is wanted, he
can always do his work."
Anthony Trollope
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| Scores, hundreds of horses are wandering around, gathering into
herds and into twos and threes, lost, exhausted, bony, but still alive
where they have been able to wrench themselves free from a team whose other
horses have been killed; some, like our horse, are still n harness, or
dragging a shaft with them, and there are wounded horses...the undecorated,
unnamed heroes of the battle who for a hundred, two hundred miles have
hauled this artillery, now dead and drowning in the swamp...
Alexamder Solzhenitsyn, b 1918
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Look back at our struggle for freedom,
Trace our present day's strength to its source;
And you'll find that man's pathway to glory
Is strewn with the bones of a horse."
Anonymous
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| In those far-off unmechanized days, suffering by horses in the pursuit
of men's bitter quarrels was taken for granted. Horses have died
in their unrecorded millions in the service of their country from the first
cavalry horses of the Celtiberians, scaling the rocks of Spain and Portugal
in support of Hanibal, to the selfless sacrifice of the British horses
which galloped undemurring into the Russian guns at Balaclava."
Sylvia Loch
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| "In grateful and reverent memory of the Empire's horses (some 375,000)
who fell in the Great War (1914 - 1918). Most obediently, and often
most painfuly, they died.
Memorial at Church of St. Jude, London
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| "Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far too high. Loads too
heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances
far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery."
Pam Brown, b. 1928
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| No one sho longs for the 'good old days' sighs for the passing of
the working horse. No if he or she loves horses."
Marion C. Garretty
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"That hoss wasn't built to tread the earth,
He took natural to the air,
And every time he went aloft,
He tried to leave me there."
Anonymous tribute to an unmanageable horse
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| "He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions."
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
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| "A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle."
Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
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| "It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse.
This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and
take it as required."
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
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| "I prefer a bike to a horse. The brakes are more easily checked.
Lambert Jeffries
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| "You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car.
Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack, and a screwed-up waxed jacket
of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children
and dogs."
Helen Thomson, b. 1943
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| "Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside
of the house."
Maya Patel
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| "The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought
home, smiling gamely, with a broken collar-bone, and incredible contusions
- 'it wasn't Jazebel's fault, Dad.' "
Pam Brown, b. 1928
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| "The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child
who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out
a stable."
Samantha Armstrong
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| "Even an E-type Jaguar looks merely flash beside a really smart
pony and trap."
Marion C. Garretty
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| Fine steeds, like true friends are few, even if to the eye of the
inexperienced they are many.
Al Mutannabbi, 9th century A.D.
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