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...Wild to hold, though I seem tame.
Sep 29, 2025
It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.
The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is because we are, in ways, powerful. But that does not make the race of humans (funanga) better than that of the dog or equine.
He did not feel the ground under his feet - he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air-forelegs and hind legs horizontal. He soared above the ground, he head in jubilation. Conquering!
In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.
There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be.
His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
To place your horse's need for you to let him leave his failing body above your need to keep him with you - that - is the greatest and purest love.
There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.
When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.
Horses lend us the wings we lack.
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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 then a loan.
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
If in another world there is any riding — and God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses — I cannot but think that there will be a soft swishing as of the footsteps of some invisible horse heard occasionally on the familiar trails over which the equestrian statue is to look.
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning...the faithful horse has been with us always.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.
A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
You and your horse. His strength and beauty. Your knowledge and patience and determination and understanding and love. That's what fuses the two of you onto this marvelous partnership that makes you wonder, "What can heaven offer any better then what I have here on earth?".
The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank.
Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.
You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.
A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.
You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
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