Quotes About Horses

Folk dress in all manner of finery and wonderful hats to go and watch the races, but only if it's horses doing the barreling that day. This, at least, is understandable, for horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse's tragedy that they can never properly wear one.

horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse's tragedy that they can never properly wear one.

The grass and the rivers and the stones and women and horses and more Stars and men and clouds and birds and trees came dancing through the afterbirth of the Mare,

Whatever his father said about angles of stifles, cow hocks or spavins, all horses were handsome and good. You just had to find the right use for them.

These nineteenth-century horses were stronger and healthier, capable of massive endurance as well as thrilling speed. They ran four miles, you know—heats—up to three times in a single day. They were tough.

Peter laughed. "Still worried somebody'll get ideas? Listen, champ, New York is teeming with faggots. One more or less won't frighten the horses.

...and God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses...

Knee-deep in the wild oats of the hillside grazed two horses, chestnut-sorrels the pair of them, perfectly matched, warm and golden in the sunshine, their spring-coats a sheen of high-lights shot through with color-flashes that glowed like fiery jewels.

These skills later gave the Mongols a great advantage because, unlike almost every other army, the Mongols easily rode and even fought on frozen rivers and lakes. The frozen rivers that Europeans relied upon as their protection from invasion, such as the Volga and the Danube, became highways for the Mongols, allowing them to ride their horses right up to city walls during the season that found the Europeans least prepared for fighting.

But Quintilius Rousse's sailors grinned in the saddle, saluting, and rode out in a thunder, horses trampling their own long shadows as they set their heads to the east.

Horses are far worse than men for treachery...

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

I've got some horses which, unfortunately due to my job, I don't spend enough time with them, but they're my release when I get home. I go down to the stables, muck 'em out and spend a bit of time with them and they love me and it's great just going home to see them.

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

So many horses get stage fright when they enter the arena, and that's it - the performance is over.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running.

When I was a little girl, my favorite television show starred Roy Rogers and Dale Evans- the queen of the cowgirls." Mrs. Coley explained. "Dale wore a fancy fringed leather skirt and rode a buckskin horse named Buttermilk........... "Thank heavens for Dale Evans," she said with a sigh.

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage...

And my father? Brian's grin flashed. I like thinking that's where I got the fifty.I told him he's better off sticking with the horses. Keeley's brow rose. And his response to that? Isn't something I can repeat in polite company.