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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
More to Come
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