A woman needs two animals: The horse of her dreams and a jackass to pay for it.

A little horseplay... the way best to enjoy a summer day!

Cowgirl: A better-looking cowboy with brains.

A horse is an angel without wings

A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can read distinctly; and yet there are some people who, as soon a they get on a young horse, entirely undressed and untaught, fancy that by beating and spurring they will make him a dressed horse in one morning only. I would fain ask such stupid people whether by beating a boy they would teach him to read without first showing him the alphabet? Sure they would beat him to death before they would make him read.
- Reproduced from The Man Who Listens to Horses - Original source unknown.

Some are slaves on the ground but are free on a horse.

Nothing moves me more than when on the way to fetching in my mare in the morning than the sound of her neighing to me as I open the gate.

The Joy of horses is not the riding, jumping, racing, showing, or grooming, but of owning!!!

A mule is just like horse, but even more so.
- Pat Parelli

A horse doesn't care how much you know until he knows how much you care.
- Pat Parelli

A horse is like a best friend. They're always there to nuzzle you and make your life a better place.

The hardest thing about learning to ride is the ground!

My horse is security conscience... he always likes to bolt the stable door when I leave.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

My horse is very quick. Sometimes he's so quick he leaves me behind.

I live in a house but my home is in the stable.

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
- Emir Abd-el-Kader

Horses are the dolphins of the plains, the spirits of the wind; yet we sit astride them for the sake of being well-groomed, whereas they could have all the desire in the world to bolt, but instead, they adjust their speed and grace, only to please us, never to displease.
- Lauren Salerno

Horse... If God made anything more beautiful he kept it for himself!

If a horse stands on you its because your in the way. Not because he is trying to hurt you.

How to ride a horse:
Step One - Mount the horse.
Step Two - Stay mounted ...

A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.

When your horse follows you with out being asked, when he rubs his head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle down your spine you know you are loved...do you love him back?

A western horse has guts and commitment, an English horse has grace and elegance, but my horse has it all!

A polo pony is like a motorbike with a mind of its own weighing half a ton.

Been There... Jumped That!

There are only two emotions that belong in the saddle; one is a sense of humor and the other is patience.
- John Lyons

In my opinion, a horse is the animal to have. 1100 pounds of raw muscle, power, grace, and sweat between your legs - it's something you just can't get from a pet hamster.
- Anonymous

One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
- Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age.
- French Proverb

Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management.
- George H. Morris, The American Jumping Style

Of all creatures God made at the Creation, there is none more excellent, or so much to be respected as a horse.
- Bedouin Legend

It is the difficult horses that have the most to give you.
- Lendon Gray

An exhibitor went up to a horse show judge to complain about being placed below someone who made some sort of mistake, such as being on the wrong lead. The judge's explanation: the other guy did it better wrong than you did it right.

Every time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.
- Gordon Wright

One man's wrong lead is another man's counter-canter.
- S.D. Price

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
- Dagobert D. Runes

How do you catch a loose horse?
Make a noise like a carrot.
- British Cavalry joke

If anybody expects to calm a horse down by tiring him out with riding swiftly and far, his supposition is the reverse of the truth.
- Xenophon

Leave a horse's gate unfastened and he'll be knocking on your window in the night.

All horses deserve, at least once in their lives, to be loved by a little girl.

Ask not what your horse can do for you - Ask what you can do for your horse.

May the horse be with you.

It excites me that no matter how much machinery replaces the horse, the work it can do is still measured in horsepower.....even in this space age. And although a riding horse often weighs half a ton, and a big drafter a full ton, either can be led about by a piece of string if he has been wisely trained. This to me is a constant source of wonder, and challenge.
- Marguret Henry

A dog may be man's best friend...But the horse wrote history.

Lessons From Your Horse:
When you're tense, let me teach you that there are lions in the woods, and we need to leave. NOW!!
When you're short tempered, let me teach you how to slog around the pasture for an hour before you catch me.
When you're short-sighted, let me teach you to figure out where, exactly, in 40 acres I'm hiding.
When you're quick to react, let me teach you that herbivores kick much faster than omnivores.
When you're worried, let me entertain you with my mystery lameness.
When you feel superior, let me teach you that mostly, you're the maid service.
When you're self-absorbed, let me teach you to pay attention!! (I told you about those lions in the woods...)
When you're arrogant, let me teach you what 1,200 pounds of yahoo-let's-go! speed event horse can do when suitably inspired.
When you're lonely, let me be your companion. Let's do lunch. Also breakfast, dinner, and snacks.
When you're tired, don't forget the 600 pounds of grain that need to be unloaded.
When you're feeling financially secure, let me teach you the meaning of "veterinary services, additional."

In training horses, one trains himself
- Antoine De Pluvinet

A horse is like a violin, first it must be tuned, and when tuned it must be accurately played.

Riders who force their horses by the use of the whip only increase their fear for they then associate the pain with the thing that frightens them.
- Xenophon

A horse is an animal not a machine and is only as good as it's rider.

Riding is not a sport, it is a passion. If you do not share the passion, you do not know the sport, and therefore are wasting your time.

A horses comment on a car -"150 horsepower, big deal. I'd be impressed if it ran on hay."

Whoever said that money cannot buy happiness didn't know where to buy a horse.

People talk about size, shape, quarters, blood, bone, muscle, but for my part, give me a hunter with brains: he has to take care of the biggest fool of the two and think for both.

Horse sense - something that horses have that stops them from betting on humans.

Jumping: It's just doing flat-work in the air.

When riding a horse we leave our fear, troubles, and sadness behind on the ground.
- Juli Carlson

Never drink down-stream from your horse!

Jumping is just dressage with speed bumps!

Riding a Shire is like a moving sofa!!!

The Surgeon General said nothing about SMOKING THE COMPETITION!!

Here is one little girl who would rather clean a stall than her own room...
Here is one little girl who would rather wear chaps than a party dress...
Here is one little girl who would rather go to the barn than the mall...

After God, we owe it to the horses.

Bread may feed my body, but my horse feeds my soul.

When to see a horse you think low intelligence, to see a man high intelligence, but to mix to make a friendship you seem to get greater intelligence

Horses give us the wings we lack.

I was lying, bolstered up in bed, reading, when I heard a rush of flying feet, and in an instant, with a loud joyful neigh, she checked herself in front of my window. And when the nurse lifted the sash, the beautiful creature thrust her head through the aperture, and rubbed her nose against my shoulder like a dog. I am not ashamed to say that I put both arms around her neck, and, burying my face in her mane, kissed her again and again.
Wounded, weak and away from home, with only strangers to wait upon me, and scant service at that, the affection of this lovely creature for me, so tender and touching, seemed almost human, and my heart went out to her beyond any power of expression, as to the only being, of all the thousands around me, who thought of me and loved me.
- WHH Murray - A Ride with a mad horse in a freight car

Amazingly fast, incredibly strong, tirelessly proud, fantastically gentle, he is a huge dark beast that touches the hearts of all who meet him. He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love.
This is HIS life.
He is called the horse
- Anna Sewell

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

It is easier to attach reins to a freight train and practice pulling to a halt than it is to slow down some of our horses.

Do not underestimate a horse's pride, or he will dent yours.

Got my horse, got my dog, don't need no cowboy!

If horses were wishes, We'd all own stables!

A horse has so docile a nature that he would always rather do right then wrong, if only he could be taught to distinguish one from the other.

My horse is even politer than anyone could imagine, he lets me run the cross-country, dressage and the show jumping before he even thinks about doing it him self!

For the wonderful brain of man
However mighty its force
Had never achieved its lordly plan
Without the aid of a horse.
- Ella Wilcox

If God had intended man to walk, he would have given him four legs. Instead, he gave him two-one to put on either side of a horse.
- Montana Rancher

Before I loved horses I had nothing to live for, Now I love horses and can't stop seeing things to live for. God bless the Creature that is so noble they make me feel ALIVE!!

Yes! I hugged my horse today!!!

I love Fast Horses and Good Women Lord, so let me live my life with them. And when I die let my hide be made into a Ladies riding Saddle that I may be between them evermore!!!
- Cowboys Prayer

The history of mankind is carried on the back of the horse.