What quotes do you know about horses or horse-riding particularly if they mix in some philosophy?

Question

Here's one I like; I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Answer 1

My fav is:
"The Best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of the horse" Lord Palnerstone

here is a link to a bunch more,
http://www.weforanimals.com/quotations/quotationshorses.htm

Answer 2

Never look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

Stop "Horsing" about

Answer 3

I was taught this years ago when I was learning to ride:-

'Your head and your heart hold high;
Your hands and your heels hold low.
Your knees keep close to your horse's sides,
Your elbows close to your own.'
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Here's the poem that Ronald Duncan wrote for the Horse of the Year Show in 1954.

'THE HORSE'

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity?
Here, where grace is lace with muscle, and stength by gentleness confined.
He serves without servility, he has fought without enmity.
There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent, there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
England's past has been borne on his back.
All our history is his industry.
We are his heirs, he our inheritance.
Ladies and Gentlemen - The Horse.

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and what about......

'A horse, a horse, my Kingdom for a horse!'

...........Richard III, I think.

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Answer 4

never knock a gift horse in the mouth e.g if some one gives you somthing for free or as a present except it or you will look rude and may never get offered it again

Answer 5

well its not a quote more a name of a great tv sit com; Only Fools and Horses. brilliant programme, so funny..

Answer 6

Only horses kick. :)