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Horses

A horse is worth more than riches. – Spanish Proverb

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death. – Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it. – Author Unknown

In riding a horse we borrow freedom. – Helen Thomson

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

Feeling down? Saddle up. – Author Unknown

God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses. – R.B. Cunninghame Graham, letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 1917

Even an E-type Jaguar looks merely flash beside a really smart pony and trap. – Marion C. Garretty

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. – Duke of Endinburgh

They say princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship. The reason is the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. – Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems, "Illiteratu

Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it. – John Moore

Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house. – Maya Patel

To me, horses and freedom are synonymous. – Veryl Goodnight

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

One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. – Dale Carnegie

The horse through all its trials has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood. – Johannes Jensen

Horses lend us the wings we lack. – Author Unknown

Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. – Chinese Proverb

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. – Sherwood Anderson

If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong. – Pat Parelli