Horses

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.  ~Winston Churchill

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.  ~W.C. Fields


Riding:  The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground.  ~Author Unknown


It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.  ~Mexican Proverb


The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.  ~Yiddish Proverb


Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.  ~C.W. Anderson


No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.  ~Winston Churchill


People on horses look better than they are.  People in cars look worse than they are.  ~Author Unknown


Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world.  ~Josephine Demott Robinson


The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.  ~Arabian Proverb


A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.  ~Ian Fleming


It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!  ~Nicholas Evans


I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.  ~Mark Twain


There are fools, damn fools, and those who remount in a steeplechase.  ~Bill Whitbread


All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day.  ~Author Unknown


In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.  ~Helen Thomson


Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden.  ~Chinese Proverb


If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.  ~Pat Parelli


Horse sense, n.:  Stable thinking.  ~Author Unknown

Acknowledgment:
Thanks to Betsy Caldwell for
submitting some of these quotes.


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