Quotations About Horses, 3

We love dogs, cats, horses, other animals. They are precious. But some people don’t understand horses.

I hope these quotes from Hubpages.com, help you start to see the true nature of the horse, and why people hold them in such high regard them. I sure did my horse, Bey Heiric, R.I.P.

“The horse, with beauty unsurpassed, strength immeasurable and grace unlike any other, still remains humble enough to carry a man upon his back.” –Amber Senti

“Of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless.” –Bret Harte

“By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.” –Emir Abd-El-Kader

“A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old workhorse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.” –Gerald Rafferty

 “No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.” –Herman Melville

 “The horse moved like a dancer, which is not surprising. A horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.” –Mark Helprin

 “The sunshine’s golden gleam is thrown, on sorrel, chestnut, bay and roan.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.”  –Paul Mellon

“A horse is the projection of people’s dream about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.” –Pam Brown

“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “My horses are my friends, not my slaves.” –Reiner Klimke

“The horse. Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing servant, yet never a slave.” –Ronald Duncan

“When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid, I figure it’s a sure sign that the animal has outfoxed them.” –Tom Dorrance 

“His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed, a horse.’ –William Shakespeare

“When I bestride him, I soar. I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical that the pipe of Hermes.” –William Shakespeare

“Through his mane and tail the high wind sings, fanning the hairs who wave like feather’d wings.” –William Shakespeare