Horse Quotes

If wishes were horses beggars would ride.

A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse three dogs, and a man three horses.

Don’t put the cart before the horse.

No use in flogging a dead horse.

And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. (1 Kings 4:26)

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife. (Jeremiah 5:8)

With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils, never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscar’d by spur or rod A thousand horses-the wild-the free- Like waves that follow o’er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Every Englishman wears a mackintosh, and has a cap on his head and a newspaper in his hand. As for the Englishwoman, she carries a mackintosh or a tennis racket. Nature here has a propensity for unusual shagginess… and all kinds of hair; English horses, for example, have regular tufts and tassels of hair on […]

Hardy grinned at the thought. “Never was a horse that couldn’t be rode, an’ there never was a rider who couldn’t be throwed.”