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.