The 50 Best Horse Quotes of All Time
Horses have played a pivotal role in the history of humanity, and have rightly been immortalised in literature and great speeches. No matter if you’re…
Horses have played a pivotal role in the history of humanity, and have rightly been immortalised in literature and great speeches. No matter if you’re looking for inspiration, motivation, or joy we’ve compiled the perfect list of fifty horse quotes for you – with sources ranging from Winston Churchill, to Linda McCartney.
Horse quotes by actors and actresses
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain’t a thing.
Will Rogers
His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.
Jerry Shulman
Horses lend us the wings we lack.
Pam Brown
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks – but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan.
Pam Brown
Inspirational horse quotes by authors
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
Robert Browning
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can teach riding so well as a horse.
C.S. Lewis
The horse. Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing servant, yet never a slave.
Ronald Duncan
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
Robert Smith Surtees
When your horse follows you without 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.
John Lyons
A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.
Rebecca Carroll
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a horse.
John Galsworthy
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and freedom.
Sharon Ralls Lemon
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Herman Melville
The horse moved like a dancer, which is not surprising. A horse is a beautiful animal, but he is perhaps most remarkable because he moves as if he always hears music.
Mark Helprin
Wherever man has left his footprints in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we find the hoofprint of a horse beside it.
John Trotwood Moore
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot.
John Steinbeck
Horse quotes by politicians
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
Winston Churchill
Don’t give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses. No one ever came to grief, except honourable grief, through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.
Winston Churchill
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
Winston Churchill
God forbid I go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.
R.B. Cunninghame Graham
A great horse will change your life. The truly special ones define it.
Abraham Lincoln
I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace.
Abraham Lincoln
Great horse-related proverbs
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Proverb
A good horse cannot be of a bad colour.
Proverb
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Proverb
Other horse quotes
In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
Helen Thompson Woolley
The horse, with beauty unsurpassed, strength immeasurable and grace unlike any other, still remains humble enough to carry a man upon his back.
Amber Senti
It is not the direction you head that defines the journey, but the horse you head there with.
George Free
I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.
Linda McCartney
You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.
Charles M. Russell
Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning – the faithful horse has been with us always.
Elizabeth Cotton
Horse quotes with an unknown origin
For one to fly, one needs only to take the reins.
Unknown
I’d rather ride on a Mustang, than in one.
Unknown
There are many wonderful places in the world, but one of my favorite places is on the back of my horse.
Unknown
A dog may be man’s best friend…but the horse wrote history.
Unknown
The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse.
Unknown
Riding never gets easier. You just get better.
Unknown
One who believes that he has mastered the art of horsemanship has not yet begun to understand the horse.
Unknown
A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.
Unknown
A good rider can hear his horse speak to him. A great rider can hear his horse whisper.
Unknown
The world is best viewed through the ears of a horse.
Unknown
One must think when looking at a horse in motion, that he hears music inside his head.
Unknown
When the Almighty put hoofs on the wind and a bridle on the lightning, He called it a horse.
Unknown
A horse in the wind – a perfect symphony.
Unknown
Half the failures in life result from pulling in one’s horse when it is leaping.
Unknown
I live in a house, but my home is in the stable.
Unknown
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