Quotes and sayings

“A horse gives a man wings”

Alexander the Great

“Four things greater than all things are -
women and horses, and power and war”

Rudyard Kipling

“We are heathen who worship an idol
we keep for our pleasure and pride -
we are slaves of the saddle and bridle,
yet kings of the earth when we ride”

W.H. Ogilvie

“They say princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship.
The reason is the brave beast is no flatterer,
he will throw the prince as soon as his groom”

Ben Johnson

“When you’re young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you’re my age, you splatter“.

Roy Rogers

“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

“It’s a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider’s nuts, the horse bolts!”

Nicholas Evans

“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle“.

Winston Churchill

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man“.

Winston Churchill

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

R.B. Cunninghame Graham

“If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong“.

Pat Parelli

“Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself“.

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