Horse Lover's Quotes

"One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's
life devolves around her unanswered prayers for a horse." - Phyllis Theroux

I don't know about you but I adore reading inspirational or heart-warming horsey quotes that are usually found inserted into sections of that 'Backing Horses' or 'Showing ring craft' book we just had to add to our collection.

Here are some words for thought for even the most no-nonsense horseman to take into consideration. I shall lead with perhaps one of my more favored of quotes from Winston Churchill;

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

"A horse is a thing of such beauty...None will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor" - Xenophon

"Riding - The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground. - Unknown"

"Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and, once it has done so, he will have to accept that his life will be radically changed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A Horsey person may say they love you, they may even marry you, but if you ask them to choose between you or their horse, you're sure gonna miss them!" 

"In riding a horse we borrow freedom." - Helen Thomson

"When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes." - William Shakespeare, Henry V  

"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle." - Winston Churchill 

"All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day." - Author unknown  

"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 

"Many people have signed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse', but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses." - C.W. Anderson 

 "A canter is a cure for every evil." - Benjamin Disraeli

"The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." - Arabian Proverb

"The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire." - Sharon Ralls Lemon

"A horse is worth more than riches." - Spanish Proverb 

"But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another." - C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy 

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