The sight of [that pony] did something I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous strength and speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming.

- WALT MOREY

 Experienced  riders are not prone to brag. And usually newcomers, if they start out being boastful, end up modest.
- C.J.J.MULLEN

 It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.
- MEXICAN PROVERB

 God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses.
- R.B.CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM

 A lovely horse is always an experience . . . It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words
- BERYL MARKHAM

 We kept him until he died . . . and sat with hum during the long last minutes when a horse comes closest to seeming human.
- C.J.J.MULLEN

 A horse gallops with his lungs, Perserveres with his heart, And wins with his character.
- TESIO

 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

 She was so light on her feet, she danced down the planks and hardly seemed to feel the ground; and she moved with a swaying to and fro of her deer's head in a way to make you think of open moor and flowing airs. The glwaming sun was delighted with her bay coat.
- ERNEST RHYS

 . . . An instinct sympathy which makes a horse and master one heart, one pulse, one understanding love - is never made, but born.
- GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAN

 I will not change my horse with any that tread but on four pasterns . . . When I  bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. He trot the air, the earth sing when he touches it, the barest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

 It was quite customaryas late as 1890 to see a countryman returning from the market, fast asleep, slumped forward over his saddle bar while his horse plodded his own way home.
- DOROTHY HARTLEY
The wagon rest in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.
- YIDDISH PROVERB

 Horse, thou art truly a creature without equal, for thou fliestwithout wings and conquerest without sword.
- THE KORAN

 All our best horses have Arab blood, and once in a while it seems to have come out strong and show in every part of the creature, in his frame, his power, and his wild, free, roving spirit.
- ERNEST THOMPSON SETON

 I purchased some classics on horse care . . . I gradually came to understand they were like 19th-century religious tomes on how to save your soul: objective, good; instructions, extremely detailed; practical application, impossible.
- C.J.J.MULLEN

 Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.
- DANISH PROVERB
 

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