There’s something about horses that just makes people feel good. Maybe it’s their peaceful nature, or the way they seem to connect with us on a spiritual level. Whatever it is, people have been looking to horses for wisdom and inspiration for centuries.
The best horse quotes
1. Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable. — Mel Gibson
2. Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls. — William J. Clinton
3. Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. — Virginia Woolf
4. There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse. — Missy Lyons, Cowboys Don’t Sing
5. One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don’t ride. I observe, and I worry. — Steven Spielberg
6. It doesn’t matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell
7. Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse–sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745 — Stephenie Meyer
8. An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it. — Milton Berle
9. I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing. — William Shakespeare
10. I wanted to say something about the universe. There’s God angels plants… and horseshit. — Zero Mostel
11. You tug and strain like a young horse when it’s first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings. — Sigrid Undset, The Wife
12. There’s a lot more to ridin’ a horse than just sittin’ in the saddle and lettin’ yer feet hang down. — Texas Bix Bender, Don’t Squat With Yer Spurs On!: A Cowboy’s Guide to Life
13. On horseback you feel as if you’re moving in time to classical music a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk. — Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
14. Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. — Stephen Ambrose
15. I don’t know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that. — Richard Farnsworth
16. I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES! — Richard Curtis, Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485–1917
17. Then comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind and what can I do? — Stanley Baldwin
18. Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls. — William J. Clinton
19. … a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue… — Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
20. A little stupid is like a little forest fire. If you happen upon some stupid, please stomp it out before it spreads. — Quentin R. Bufogle, Horse Latitudes
21. A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. — Will Rogers
22. Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades. — Tanith Lee
23. Nearly’ only counts in horseshoes and hand–grenades. — Neil Gaiman
24. Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack. — Maureen O’Hara
25. ‘tatiana: ”Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?”Alexander: ”That wasn’t fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.’ — Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman
26. Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but… Ancaladar ate the horse. — Mercedes Lackey, The Phoenix Endangered
27. Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse–sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745 — Stephenie Meyer
28. The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles. — Maxim Gorky
29. Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse–sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745 — Stephenie Meyer
30. Boot, saddle, to horse, and away! — Robert Browning
31. The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. — William Blake
32. Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader… — Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
33. Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back. — William Shakespeare
34. On horseback you feel as if you’re moving in time to classical music a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk. — Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
35. Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud–horse. — H. L. Mencken
36. Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but… Ancaladar ate the horse. — Mercedes Lackey, The Phoenix Endangered
37. With a heart of furious fanciesWhereof I am commander:With a burning spear, And a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander… — Tom O’Bedlam
38. A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. … a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense. — William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
40. He was carried over the difficult places in spite of himself; and he went plunging away in mad career–a very Mazeppa–ride upon the wild horse Speculation. — Upton Sinclair
41. Ride the horse in the direction that it’s going. — Werner Erhard
42. It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive. — Paul Newman
43. Contention, like a horse, Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him. — William Shakespeare
44. Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. — Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses
45. My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul. — Robert E. Howard
46. Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. — William Penn
47. I haven’t seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better. — Will Rogers
48. An old horse, an old bird, an old man, an old tree, they all represent a great survival in the jungle of cosmos; they deserve to be applauded and respected! — Mehmet Murat ildan
49. Pull yourself out of the dirt, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse and ride towards the sunset. — Michael Dean Russell Jr.
50. ‘i want a magical horse that fits in my pocket, ” Wil said. ”And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.’ — Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
Conclusion
We hope that these quotes about horses have inspired you to appreciate these beautiful and noble creatures even more. Horses are truly unique and amazing animals, and we should all take a moment to appreciate them.
