Probably every horse site has put together a horse quote collection, so I guess it’s time to share my favorites. As far as I’m concerned, a good quote can always make you smile & some people just know how to put things.
“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”
~Winston Churchill
“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
“People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.”
~Marya Mannes
“If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle.”
~Rita Mae Brown
“You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.”
~Will Rogers
“Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it.”
~John Moore
“Never send a man to do a horse’s job.”
~Mr. Ed
“Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.”
~Aubrey Eben
“Take most people, they’re crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they’re always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon … I don’t even like old cars. I mean they don’t even interest me. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”
~J. D. Salinger
“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”
~Winston Churchill
“Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it.”
~John Moore
“One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”
~Dale Carnegie
“Four things greater than all things are women and horses and power and war.”
~R. Kipling
(Thanks to Gary Minshall for sharing the last one).
Missing A Good One?
These are my personal favorites, but I’m always interested in which horse quotes everyone else likes. Feel free to leave yours in the comments below.
Paige
This is an excellent start! I love the Rita Mae one. She has about a hundred really good zingers.
I’m borrowing the science one, for obvious reasons! Thank you!
As for the first quote, some say that Ronald Regan said it others say Churchill was the first. I’d be willin’ to bet it was some ole cowboy 150 yrs. ago. I can see ’em now with his hat pushed back, just standin’ there lookin’ at his horse. And sez!
Every Horse has an owner, every owner has a resposibility. — ILECH.org —
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For what ever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected. — Chief seattle, Suquamish Indian Tribe —
God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses. — Robert Browning
The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the
iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves of the
horse have stirred. – Will H. Ogilvie
If they want to eat horses in Belgium and France, that’s fine with me,” “I just don’t want them eating American Horses.” Texan Pickens said.
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
Here where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined.
He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity.
There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent;
there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
England’s past has been borne on his back.
All our history is in his industry.
We are his heirs;
He is our inheritance
Ladies and Gentlemen – The Horse!