What are your favorite quotes for horsepeople and for life?

[Gary Stuart]

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

[Sonia]

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...

[Barbara F.]

This is so true. thanks for posting it...

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

[Barbara F.]

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

[Sandy]

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"

[Karen Brenner]

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

[Ann]

Its not enough to know how to ride, but one must also know how to fall.
Mexican Proverb

[boogiesbayboy]

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".

[Lallanslover]

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.

[Sonia]

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

[Dorothy McDonall]

“Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.” Chinese Proverb

D :-)

[Gordon Hislip]

If you can keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs, then perhaps you are not fully aware of the situation ......

[Barbara F.]

LOL!!