Quotessence
Home / Topics / Horse Quotes

Horse Quotes

Browse 2674 quotes about Horse.

Related topics

IfsMenPeopleKnowsThinkingWayRidingWantAnimalSaidWellsLooksRunningDogWorldRidersRaceTwoHumansLittlesTryingYearsShouldLongFirstsMayGivingChildrenStillsMadeNeedsDoeRacingMindKindFeelsWarHandsMightWhiteCarHeartHorse RacingMeanThreeWild HorsesBeautifulYoungBigsFourGood HorseI CanWinningEnoughFallHas BeensMovingDoneShowsBitsBodyCoursesEquestrianHardRealWantedDifferentEndsAbleEquineFacesGirlLegsPlayUsedWalksWaterArtCowboyEyeSoulWould BeCatCowsFeetLostRace HorsesSaddlesUseWindBehindsCareCreaturesFactsFunFunnyHouseMatterNightRemembermore

Horse Quotes

“I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.” Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, “If a band of pirates kidnapped me and took me to their ship and threatened to make me walk the plank over a shiver of starving sharks unless I told them your secret, I still wouldn’t tell it. If I were tied by a villain and thrown before a herd of stampeding horses all shod in iron, and the only way to keep from being trampled was to tell the villain your secret, I—”

IfsWayStillsWalksAnimalSecretSeeingBandHorseSaintShipsThrownIronVillainTiedSwearThreatenedStarvingHerdsPirateSharksHesitationShiverPatronPoppiesKidnapped
Book:Tempt Me at Twilight
Create image

“To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.”

MenYearsBelieveLooksTwoSeemsAnimalDogPrideProudUniversalHorseNobleDumbInnocencePeculiarLoyalRabbitsEaglesOwlForlornTwo Friends
Book:West with the Night
Create image

“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”

YearsChildrenWarSometimesTogetherWhiteAnimalBehindsStrangeHonorWalkingThousandMusicianGloryEarsHorseSlaveTreasureGoldenChainsEnjoyedTriumphPrisonerTerritoryWarningCrownsThousand YearsFleetingCapturedWhisperingParadesConquerorCartsArmamentProcessionChariotsDazed
Author:George S. Patton
Create image

“You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They don’t have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.”

ThinkingBelieveLooksMeanDoeSoulSometimesProblemHeavenAnimalTreeDogFlowerBirdHorseDon't BelieveUnfairTheologicalNunParkingCementBaptizedParking Lot
Book:The House of the Scorpion
Create image

“It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavour now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in tha lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death.”

WorldBelieveChildrenPlayEyeMotherLosesAnimalHalfImagineSweetFlowerBrokenHorseShiningMusicalMonstersReleaseInstantLakesChickensGrantsCritiqueDamsFlavourWill To LiveLlamasQuinoa
Book:What Really Happened in Peru
Create image

“There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.”

IfsAnimalStepsRocksGainsRiversCrossesOppositesHorseStormSnowCourageousSoberPlungeGlaciersFjords
Book:EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEYS
Create image

“The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.”

KnowsMenDoeFactsScienceUniverseSpeakStarsSpaceAnimalSunPoetFlowerMoonHorseAstronomyChemistryAnimationMeadowsVegetationMoon And Stars
Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition
Create image

“A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.”

TogetherPoliticalUsedFightingFearVoiceAnimalCareersAtheismBandDirectorsRiversHorseEmbraceMeetingsGreedRageLustPracticalsUsed To BeCorporationsBoardsCollectivesSweatConventionsPigsIdealismFistsAdvancementMedievalGet TogetherBoard Of DirectorsCarnivalsVendettaFeudsFiesta
Book:The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations
Create image

“Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly how they were used; they don't seem to be all that common. Were they horses as we understood them, [or] does the term describe some other animal? Languages don't always and cultures don't always classify things the way we would expect. We have what we call common-sense ways of doing it. They're not common sense; they're just ours. But again, we don't have a strong case there. We're just problem solving there.”

KnowsWayDoeBookProblemSeemsWould BeUsedCultureLanguageStrongTermAnimalCommonCasesHonestyUnderstoodHorseCommon SenseProblem Solving
Author:Daniel C. Peterson
Create image

“I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such passion, you injure your own character as much, nay more, than you injure your horse, and remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.”

MenWayGivingLittlesCharacterRememberPassionAnimalEthicsHorsePainfulWitnessBeastPetTreatmentJudgedBrutalPoniesAnimal EthicsGiving Way
Author:Anna Sewell
Create image

“The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye) I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse: For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.”

MayLittlesBigsEyeMovingScienceWaterAnimalImagineHairThousandTenCreaturesEqualOrdinaryHundredBiggerHorseNakedCompareProportionSandImagine ThatGrainBeesCheeseGrains Of SandNaked EyesThickness
Author:Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Create image

“What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.”

MenFirstsHumansUseLawHumanityDifficultHuman BeingsAnimalIssuesTeachingMoralityConcernHorseDifficultyInjusticeGentleReasonableBehaviourInferiorsStrifeCivilisation
Book:The Illustrated Horse Management: Containing Descriptive Remarks Upon Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables : Likewise a Plain Account of the Situation, Nature and Value of the Various Points : Together with Comments on Grooms, Dealers, Breeders, Breakers and Trainers : Also, on Carriages and Harness
Create image

“The one thing I find the least romantic is taking a horse and carriage ride. I can't express enough how unhappy these horses are and how much pain and suffering they go through each day. Please do not ride [in horse-drawn carriages]. Take a beautiful walk together with your loved ones instead of bringing more pain to these beautiful animals.”

I CanEnoughPainTogetherBeautifulSufferingWalksAnimalOne ThingPleaseHorseUnhappyEach DayLoved OnesCarriagesPain And SufferingHorse And Carriage
Author:Lea Michele
Create image

“Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by the view from our elevation - off west the lights of Montana, Hungry Horse, and Columbia Falls, and farmsteads along the northern edge of Flathead Lake, and back in the direction of sunrise the soft and misted valleys of the parklands, not an electric light showing: little enough to preserve for the wanderings of a great and sacred animal who can teach us, if nothing else, by his power and his dilemma, a little common humility.”

IfsLittlesEnoughLightFallFoundSleepAnimalViewsCommonTeachSkyHumilityMountainHorseSacredMovedWestEdgesHungryWanderBrokePreservesLakesValleysElectricSunriseDilemmaMontanaElevationColumbiaGlaciersElectric LightHuckleberry
Author:William Kittredge
Create image

“Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!”

MeanEndsEyeChristianUsedAnimalMoralStruggleSunFailingMoralityEternalStonesEssenceAccountsHorsePhilosophicalShameShiningMereHeavyWorthySignificanceRacingHuntingLiving ThingsCartsInscrutableVivisectionHorse RacingPariahsChristian MoralityEyes That See
Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
Create image