"I pray that gentle hands may guide my feet
I ask for kind commands form voices sweet
At night a stable warm with scented hay where safe
from every harm, I'll sleep till day" -Pony's Prayer
My horses feet are swift as rolling thunder.He carries me away from all my fears, and when the world threatens to fall asunder, his mane is there to wipe away my tears! -Bonnie Lewis
The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horses ears. -Arabian Proverb
The sight of [that pony] did something I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous strength and speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming. - Walt Morey
Experienced riders are not prone to brag. And usually newcomers, if they start out being boastful, end up modest. - C.J.J.Mullen
It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. - Mexican proverb
God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses. - R.B.Cunningham Graham
A lovely horse is always an experience . . . It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words - Beryl Markham
We kept him until he died . . . and sat with hum during the long last minutes when a horse comes closest to seeming human. - C.J.J. Mullen
A horse gallops with his lungs, Perserveres with his heart, And wins with his character. - Tesio
A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets- the girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse. - C.J.J.Mullen
She was so light on her feet, she danced down the planks and hardly seemed to feel the ground; and she moved with a swaying to and fro of her deer's head in a way to make you think of open moor and flowing airs. The gleaming sun was delighted with her bay coat. - Ernest Rhys
. . . An instinct sympathy which makes a horse and master one heart, one pulse, one understanding love - is never made, but born. - George Agnew Chamberlan
I will not change my horse with any that tread but on four pasterns . . . When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. He trot the air, the earth sing when he touches it, the barest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. - William Shakespeare
It was quite customaryas late as 1890 to see a countryman returning from the market, fast asleep, slumped forward over his saddle bar while his horse plodded his own way home. - Dorothy Hartley
The wagon rest in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. - Yiddish proverb
Horse, thou art truly a creature without equal, for thou fliest without wings and conquerest without sword. - The Muslim Koran
All our best horses have Arab blood, and once in a while it seems to have come out strong and show in every part of the creature, in his frame, his power, and his wild, free, roving spirit. - Ernest Thompson Seton
I purchased some classics on horse care . . . I gradually came to understand they were like 19th-century religious tomes on how to save your soul: objective, good; instructions, extremely detailed; practical application, impossible. - C.J.J. Mullen
Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse. - Danish proverb
If you have a poem or quote, or some little diddly-dad that you found, please send it in! I just request that it be horse-related.
