There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse. – John Lubbock, “Recreation,” The Use of Life, 1894
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. – W.C. Fields
Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground. – Author Unknown
It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. – Mexican Proverb
The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. – Yiddish Proverb
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. – Winston Churchill
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. – Marya Mannes
Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world. – Josephine Demott Robinson
Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means. – Rudolf C. Binding
To ride a horse is to ride the sky. – Author Unknown
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 into the open. – Gerald Raferty
A lovely horse is always an experience…. It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. – Beryl Markham
I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. – Mark Twain
…I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Chimæra," A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boy
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
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, HenryV
A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse. – C.J.J. Mullen
A canter is a cure for every evil. – Benjamin Disraeli
If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle. – Rita Mae Brown
A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot. – John Steinbeck
