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
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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
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The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
D.H. Lawrence
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
Xenophon
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And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh
not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son
of Nimski; for he driveth furiously.
Bible
Quotes , Source: II Kings (ch. IX, v. 20)
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Then I cast loose my buff coat, each halter let fall,
Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all,
Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear,
Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer;
Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise bad or good,
'Til at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood.
Robert Browning
Quotes , Source: How They Brought the News from Ghent
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Gamaun is a dainty steed,
Strong, black, and of a noble breed,
Full of fire, and full of bone,
With all his line of fathers known;
Fine his nose, his nostrils thin,
But blown abroad by the pride within;
His mane is like a river flowing,
And his eyes like embers glowing
In the darkness of the night,
And his pace as swift as light.
Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter)
Quotes , Source: The Blood Horse
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Morgan!--She ain't nothing else, and I've got the papers to prove
it.
Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars won't buy
her.
Briggs of Turlumme owned her. Did you know Briggs of Turlumme?--
Busted hisself in White Pine and blew out his brains down in
Frisco?
Bret Harte (Francis Bret Harte)
Quotes , Source: Chiquita
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Villain, a horse--Villain, I say, give me a horse to fly,
To swim the river, villain, and to fly.
George Peele
Quotes , Source: Battle of Alcazar (act V, l. 104)
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The wildest colts only make the best horses.
Plutarch
Quotes , Source: Life of Themistocles
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Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
The armorers accomplishing the knights,
With busy hammers closing rivets up,
Give dreadful note of preparation.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Chorus at IV, chorus)
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An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry at III, v)
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The king is come. Deal mildly with his youth;
For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (York at II, i)
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Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iii)
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A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iv)
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Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long,
Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide,
High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong,
Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide:
Look what a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Venus and Adonis (l. 295)
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome,
contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always
find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes , Source: Heartbreak House
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I saw them go; one horse was blind,
The tails of both hung down behind,
Their shoes were on their feet.
Horace Smith and James Smith
Quotes , Source: Rejected Addresses--The Baby's Debut
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