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Quotes About Horses

"A little neglect may breed miscief... for want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost."
--Benjamin Franklin:
Poor Richard's Almanack

"No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle."
--Sir Winston Churchill

" There is no secret so close as that betwwen a rider and his horse."
-- R.S. Surtees:
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

"A mare long of body, short of hair, whose spirit is unfailing... she is one of those steeds of race that strech themselves fully in their gallop, springing and light of foot...."
--Yazid, 7th century A.D.

"A horse!  A horse!  My kingdom for a horse!"
-- Shakespeare

"Each leg in its gallop seems to stream with a rush of speed as though from a bucket of water poured o'er the field."
-- Arabian poet

"There's something about the outside of a horse that's good for the inside of a man."
-- Sit Winston Churchill

"Blessed be ye, O Daughters of the Wind."
-- The Prophet Mohammed's greeting to new mares
brought by tribesmen from Yemen

"Nature, when she made the Arab, made no mistake."
--Homer Davenport:
My Quest of the Arabian Horse