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Horses, Horse Racing

Let us look beyond the ears of our own horses so that we may see the good in one anothers. – Anon.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. – Anon.

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes. – Robert Burton

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps its the risk, the gamble. In any event its a thing I need. – William Faulkner

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle. – Ian Fleming

You were a lord if you had a horse…
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, in man. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. – Abraham Lincoln

My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, with thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye! – Caroline Norton

Under his spurning feet, the road
Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind…. – Thomas Buchanan Read

Ive often said theres nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. – Will Rogers

So did this horse excel a common one
In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone.
…What a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back. – William Shakespeare

Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household. – George Bernard Shaw

It isnt important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
Its the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts – Harry S Truman

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels…. Such is the real nature of horses. – Chuang Tzu