Only For Those Who Love Them...

I'd rather have a goddam horse.
A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

A lovely horse is always an experience.... 

It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. 

 ~Beryl Markham

...with that being said, 

here are more quotes that are special to me.

It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.  

~Mexican Proverb

The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. 

 ~Arabian Proverb

God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.  

~R.B. Cunninghame Graham, letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 1917

Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.  

~Author Unknown

A horse doesn't care how much you know,

 until he knows how much you care. 

 ~Pat Parelli

He knows when you're happy

He knows when you're comfortable

He knows when you're confident

And he always knows when you have carrots.

~Author Unknown

Four things greater than all things are, 

Women and Horses and Power and War.

~Rudyard Kipling, "The Ballad of the King's Jest"

A canter is a cure for every evil.  ~Benjamin Disraeli

If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, 

or asked the question wrong.  

~Pat Parelli

The hooves of horses!

Oh! witching and sweet

Is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet;

No whisper of lover, no trilling of bird,

Can stir me as much as hooves of horses

Have stirred.

~Will H. Ogilvie

The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house 

is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain 

to spend all morning mucking out a stable.  

~Samantha Armstrong

A Horseman should know neither fear,

 nor anger.  

~James Rarey

My horse's feet are as 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

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 than the pipe of Hermes. 

 ~William Shakespeare, Henry V

...I heard a neigh.  

Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was!  

My very heart leaped with delight at the sound.  

~Nathaniel Hawthorne, 

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - 

strong, powerful, beautiful -

and it has the capability of giving us 

escape from our mundane existence.  

~Pam Brown

A horse is worth more than riches.  ~Spanish Proverb

I love the one below, and it is so very true.
Reading it reminds me, and takes me to the best memories of my life.
Again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth.  
All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me - 
the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, 
the gentle swish of their tails, 
the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs - 
little sounds of no importance, 
but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.  
~Wynford Vaughan-Thomas



I hope you enjoyed this.
I did very much. 
And now...
I have this post to return to 
should I need another visit.
XXX's

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