Top Horse Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Horse quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Frances E. Willard
Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.
- Frances E. Willard
Collection: Horse
Image of Linda Lael Miller
Wait until you see him up on a horse
- Linda Lael Miller
Collection: Horse
Image of Andre Breton
I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word "like."
- Andre Breton
Collection: Horse
Image of Joseph Bruchac
When the Lakota leader Sitting Bull was asked by a white reporter why his people loved and respected him, Sitting Bull replied by asking if it was not true that among white people a man is respected because he has many horses, many houses? When the reporter replied that was indeed true, Sitting Bull then said that his people respected him because he kept nothing for himself.
- Joseph Bruchac
Collection: Horse
Image of Ilona Andrews
Having a fling with you doesn't appeal to me. You're handsome, but you're too inexperienced to be good in bed. Having ridden many horses doesn't make you a good rider; it just proves that you can't recognize a good one or don't know how to keep her.
- Ilona Andrews
Collection: Horse
Image of M.M. Kaye
I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.
- M.M. Kaye
Collection: Horse
Image of Anna Sewell
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse.
- Anna Sewell
Collection: Horse
Image of Anna Sewell
Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.
- Anna Sewell
Collection: Horse
Image of Anna Sewell
Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.
- Anna Sewell
Collection: Horse
Image of Anna Sewell
I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such passion, you injure your own character as much, nay more, than you injure your horse, and remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.
- Anna Sewell
Collection: Horse
Image of Ann M. Martin
I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace
- Ann M. Martin
Collection: Horse
Image of Bruce Sterling
You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them, they put you here. You should realize what society has made of you and take full revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly thoroughly weird and don’t do it half way, put every ounce of your horse power into it. Have the artistic courage to realize your significance in culture.
- Bruce Sterling
Collection: Horse
Image of Robert Rodriguez
I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.
- Robert Rodriguez
Collection: Horse
Image of Dylan Thomas
Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.
- Dylan Thomas
Collection: Horse
Image of Jeffrey Bernard
I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.
- Jeffrey Bernard
Collection: Horse
Image of P. J. O'Rourke
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive-through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?
- P. J. O'Rourke
Collection: Horse
Image of Mike Royko
When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.
- Mike Royko
Collection: Horse
Image of Jeff Miller
I was in a very deep state of shock after that. I had raised my horse since he was six months old and he was more like a child to me, so I took it very hard. They never caught who did it and the stable did a great job of covering facts up so it couldn't be proved that it was the direct result of the article, but the coincidence was striking.
- Jeff Miller
Collection: Horse
Image of Edward Abbey
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Horse
Image of Laura Schlessinger
You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.
- Laura Schlessinger
Collection: Horse
Image of Jamie O'Neill
The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.
- Jamie O'Neill
Collection: Horse
Image of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Collection: Horse
Image of Verne Troyer
I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so I was sort of partially Amish. When I go back there now I still get into that culture. I can drive a horse and buggy because they don't use cars. And, of course, there's no electricity. I respect them a lot. The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to like Little House on the Prairie days or something.
- Verne Troyer
Collection: Horse
Image of Guy Davenport
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are of the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of an athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy.
- Guy Davenport
Collection: Horse
Image of Matsuo Basho
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
- Matsuo Basho
Collection: Horse
Image of John Dunning
What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.
- John Dunning
Collection: Horse
Image of Cheryl Strayed
The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.
- Cheryl Strayed
Collection: Horse
Image of Francesca Lia Block
Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.
- Francesca Lia Block
Collection: Horse
Image of Richard Brautigan
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
- Richard Brautigan
Collection: Horse
Image of Selma Blair
Dark Horse movie might be blood, sweat, and tears for Todd Solondz, because things are so important to him and so specific. He has such a rhythm and a tone. So while he may have to work so hard to keep that intact, it allows the actors the freedom to just breathe. Because he's done all the heavy lifting. He really has. He has everything the way he needs it. And so we can just get there and be whatever he saw in the audition.
- Selma Blair
Collection: Horse
Image of Walter Moers
On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.
- Walter Moers
Collection: Horse
Image of Earl Wilson
No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it.
- Earl Wilson
Collection: Horse
Image of Lea Thompson
Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.
- Lea Thompson
Collection: Horse
Image of Navjot Singh Sidhu
It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
Collection: Horse
Image of Karen O
When you train a horse on a daily basis, you're a part of the horse's movement, you're a part of his motion. Everything that the horse experiences is coming from you. There's a total connection -- a true friendship -- and the connection touches the soul completely.
- Karen O
Collection: Horse
Image of Tami Hoag
The horse world is populated by two kinds of people: those who love horses, and those who exploit horses and the people who love them.
- Tami Hoag
Collection: Horse
Image of Thomas Adams
If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.
- Thomas Adams
Collection: Horse
Image of Flann O'Brien
When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
- Flann O'Brien
Collection: Horse
Image of Buck Brannaman
Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena.
- Buck Brannaman
Collection: Horse
Image of Buck Brannaman
I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion.
- Buck Brannaman
Collection: Horse
Image of Buck Brannaman
The horse is a great equalizer, he doesn't care how good looking you are, or how rich you are or how powerful you are-- he takes you for how you make him feel.
- Buck Brannaman
Collection: Horse
Image of Buck Brannaman
The horse is a gift to us, to humanity. And for that, there comes responsibility. If the horse is gonna work for you and work with you, then the best thing I can do for the horse is to make it as good a life possible.
- Buck Brannaman
Collection: Horse
Image of Buck Brannaman
Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.
- Buck Brannaman
Collection: Horse
Image of Buck Brannaman
The horse is a mirror to your soul... and sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror.
- Buck Brannaman
Collection: Horse
Image of Buck Brannaman
When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.
- Buck Brannaman
Collection: Horse
Image of Buck Brannaman
The horse is so honest.... they live in the moment. And what they do, whether they need to protect themselves or whether they need to accept you really is directly relative to how you make them feel.
- Buck Brannaman
Collection: Horse
Image of Buck Brannaman
The horse can just be a great vehicle for some people to overcome things in their life that they might not be able to overcome otherwise.
- Buck Brannaman
Collection: Horse
Image of Buck Brannaman
I don't believe in waiting for a horse to do the wrong thing and then punishing him after the fact. You can't just say no to a horse. You have to redirect a negative behavior with a positive one, something that works for both of you. It's as though you're saying - instead of doing that, we can do this together.
- Buck Brannaman
Collection: Horse
Image of Buck Brannaman
There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.
- Buck Brannaman
Collection: Horse