What are your favorite quotes for horsepeople and for life?

It ain't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain

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These are some of the quotes from my favorite horse books...enjoy them as i have.

As a child I was drawn to Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek myth. Then I learned to ride...and discovered that all horses can sail the ethereal regions.
~Katrina Fosse

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.
~Chinese Proverb

Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are.
~English Saying

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
~Winston Churchill

Be wary of the horse with a sense of humour.
~Pam Brown

When I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them.
~Monica Dickens (From Talking of Horses...)

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
~Helen Thomson

A canter is a cure for every evil.
~Benjamin Disraeli

We have almost forgotten how strange a thing it is that so huge and powerful and intelligent an animal as a horse should allow another, and far more feeble animal, to ride upon its back.
~Peter Gray

Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'.
~Pam Brown

A good horse and a good rider are only so in mutual trust.
~H.M.E.

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
~Ian Fleming

You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs.
~Helen Thomson

Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house.
~Maya Patel

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collar-bone and incredible contusions - 'it wasn't Jezebel's fault, Dad.'
~Pam Brown

The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the puring rain to spend all morning mucking out the stable.
~Samantha Armstrong

I'm sure that many of us can relate to a couple of these...
This is so true. thanks for posting it...

Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are.
~English Saying
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm stealing this from another forum on Barnmice, but I absolutely loved this quote when I saw it. It was in the forum titled In Praise of Horses, it said,

"the air of heaven is that which blows between a horses ears"
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
Its not enough to know how to ride, but one must also know how to fall.
Mexican Proverb
There is nothing as good for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

~Ronald Reagan~


When I'm stressed out , I always say ," Horses are my therapy".
Oooh, some fantastic quotes already, thanks for sharing! Here are a couple I like that I haven't seen mentioned yet...

A lovely horse is always an experience...It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. ~Beryl Markham

And although Buddha wasn't talking about riding, he could have been when he said ~
Let go in front
Let go behind
Let go in the middle
Gone beyond existence, with a mind free everywhere.
Here's a couple more from a book I just got...

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
~Mary Pickford

If the rider's heart is in the right place, his seat will be independent of his hands.
~Piero Santini

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.
~Lauren Bacall

The wildest colts make the best horses.
~Plutarch

The great cowboys are the ones with the biggest heart.
~Ty Murray

O for a horse with wings...
~William Shakespeare
“Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.” Chinese Proverb

D :-)
If you can keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs, then perhaps you are not fully aware of the situation ......
LOL!!

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