In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback. — Mike Oldfield
It is easy to conquer the world from the back of a horse. — Genghis Khan
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have. — Winston Churchill
Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard. — Genghis Khan
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. — Adlai E. Stevenson
I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback. — Kublai Khan
Saddle your dreams before you ride em. — Mary Webb
The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead. — Louis L'Amour
I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. — George Herbert
Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love’s stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love’s horse will carry you home. — Rumi
The rhythm of the ride carried them on and on, and she knew that the horse was as eager as she, as much in love with the speed and air and freedom. — Georgess McHargue
There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town. — Brock Lesnar
Men who didn’t know how to get on and off a horse would not be much use around a cow outfit. — Larry Mcmurtry
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
They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus. — John Keats
Short Horseback Quotes
This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh! — William Shakespeare
Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot. — Hungarian Proverbs
Shoulder-in is the aspirin of horseback riding - it cures everything. — Nuno Oliveira
If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse. — Odd Nerdrum
A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback. — Coco Chanel
I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy. — Paul Walker
A Woman never looks better than on horseback — Jane Austen
I also love horseback riding in New Jersey. — Eva Herzigova
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders. — Martina Hingis
There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off. — Herbert V. Prochnow
Horseback Image Quotes
Horseback Riding Quotes
I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing. — Ric Keller
I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear. — Marie Dressler
I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less. — William John Wills
I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality. — Vanessa Carlton
My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing. — Douglas Preston
But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you're going to make a joke about her that night. — Joan Rivers
I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. I liked saving things instead of writing. — Peter Beard
The Miata is taking the place of the 240Z . The fun of driving cars is the same as riding a horse. We need a car that is like riding on horseback. We are making robots. Robots don't like human control. — Yutaka Katayama
I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs. — Minka Kelly
Horse Riding Quotes
Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters. — Genghis Khan
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. — Winston Churchill
Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it. — Ashley Judd
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride, In a one-horse open sleigh, hey, Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride, In a one-horse open sleigh... — James Pierpont
The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters. — Genghis Khan
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering. — Patrick Stewart
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever. — Richard Brautigan
A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities. — Nuno Oliveira
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. — Robert Smith Surtees
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! — Nicholas Evans
Horse Quotes
I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion. — Buck Brannaman
Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds — Genghis Khan
Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena. — Buck Brannaman
Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence. — Alexander Hamilton
I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose
of some horse that looked good to me. — Al Capone
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
The horse is a great equalizer, he doesn't care how good looking you are, or how rich you are or how powerful you are-- he takes you for how you make him feel. — Buck Brannaman
Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse. — George Cukor
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. — Daniel Boone
Horse And Rider Quotes
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground. — John Dryden
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. — Anonymous
You can kiss me if you like," she said. Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona," he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse. — Anthony Horowitz
But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless. — Elizabeth Hand
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. — Prince Philip
Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider. — Nuno Oliveira
A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so. — Steven Pressfield
The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony...a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression. — Walter Zettl
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan. — Pam Brown
In the calmness of the walk, horse and rider can find the time to think and to prepare the quality of the following trot and canter. — Nuno Oliveira
Horses Quotes
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway. — Jesse Owens
I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room. — Jay McInerney
Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. — George Jung
Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management. — George H. Morris
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses. — J. Frank Dobie
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. — Winston Churchill
The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet. — Igor Sikorsky
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver. — Adolf Eichmann
The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage. — Dean Martin
Horse And Carriage Quotes
Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other. — Frank Sinatra
Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character. — Julian Assange
Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage. — Theophile Gautier
All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind. — John Lubbock
We're dealing with fundamentalists... the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. And, if you're ever in Amish country and you see a man with his hand buried in a horse's ass, that's a mechanic. Remember that. — Robin Williams
We went to Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage. We had this huge suite of rooms at The Plaza Hotel, with a TV in each room, and we had radios with earpieces. This was too far out. — Ringo Starr
Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other. — Sammy Cahn
Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!" — John Waters
It's pretty awesome to see people dressed up in period clothing and running around on horses and in carriages and all that kind of thing. Part of the fun of making a period film is just that playfulness. It's just like make believe when you're a child except you get to do it for a real job. — Cary Fukunaga
In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge. — Honore de Balzac
White Horse Quotes
Scientists think they can now clone an all-white zebra. Now, I'm no expert, but isn't that a horse? — Jay Leno
. . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family. . . . The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers. — Chief Seattle
Firstly, there no such person as Death.
Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians.
Third, he doesn't exist either. — Neil Gaiman
Cinderella said to snow white, how does love get so off course? All I wanted was a white knight with a good heart, soft touch, fast horse. — Faith Hill
I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy. — Gary Cooper
Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way
To carry the sleigh,
Through the white and drifted snow. — Lydia M. Child
Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. — Matthew Arnold
I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be - Gothic princesses and white horses and bats and castles and things. — Richard Dawkins
Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise. — Frank Langella
Horsemen Quotes
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear. — Margaret Chase Smith
I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the illusions of youth: as a horseman, I was never really first-rate. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. — John M. Gottman
When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. — Eric Hoffer
Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four. — Bruce Schneier
Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world. — Simon Barnes
The number one worst piece of horsemanship on earth is violence. — Monty Roberts
You like the girl," Alasdair offered. Nassar leveled a heavy gaze at him. "Lillian said you tried to be funny in the car. I told her it couldn't possibly be true. The moment you try to make a joke, the sky shall split and the Four Horsemen will ride out, heralding Apocalypse. — Ilona Andrews
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam
When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again. — Jimmy Buffett
I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers. — Steve Kanaly
The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way. — Wesley Willis
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa Who knows most, knows least. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. — Cormac McCarthy
A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any. — Lester Piggott
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same. — John Tyler
A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper. — Monty Roberts
If the rider is no good, it’s the horse’s fault. — German proverbs
Horse Show Quotes
Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside. — Scott Simon
My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz. — Rosa Bonheur
I grew up riding horses and on the beach and I never really wore makeup and my mom showed that as an example. She wore makeup, just in a beautiful, effortless way. — Gigi Hadid
Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons. — Dan Quayle
You learn so many different skills on the show «Merlin». You're constantly asked to do green-screen, horse riding, comedy scenes, dramatic scenes, everything. The ability and the skill to adapt under a tight schedule is one that I'll definitely take away. — Colin Morgan
There's always [on women's magazines] that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?' — Janeane Garofalo
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky. — Bram Stoker
Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans. — Muhammad Ali
The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard
[On being told by a horse show spectator that she looked like Princess Anne:] I think I'm a bit better-looking than she is. — Anne, Princess Royal
I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat out on their beds, complaining. We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills. — Frederick the Great
Putin the poseur on horseback is hiding in his remote bunker, while Zelensky, the former comedian, is risking his life on the frontline. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback. — Otis Redding
My name, the McGregor name, my family's motto ... means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for [Aldo] to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I'll whoop his ass in July. — Conor McGregor
A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body. — Immanuel Kant
In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet. — Fulton J. Sheen
I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing with mythical tigers in steamy jungles. — Laurel Burch
Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses. — Hedda Hopper
On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck. — Hector Hugh Munro
When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director. — Rebecca De Mornay
I'm very comfortable with horses. I love horses and I have grown up around farm-hands. There's something very universal about anyone who's on horseback night and day. When you get off that horse, you are still walking as if there's still a horse between your legs. — Heath Ledger
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles. — Edward Abbey
I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. — Sam Elliott
On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk. — Walter Moers
I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand. — Antony Gormley
That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur. — Joseph Hall
When one makes sculptures of horses, one remembers all of that great relationship that humans had with them.....Even today one raises horses only for dressage, the races, for the pleasure of horseback riding. It has become an animal of romance, an animal of pleasure which has lost its utility in the West. — Joe Fafard
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on. — George Bernard Shaw
The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. — Edward Burnett Tylor
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long. — Sidney Hook
Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on. — William Butler Yeats
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other — Martin Luther
I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day. — Cary Fukunaga
I'm a horseback rider. I know how to use a whip. — Kate Upton
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet. — Aristophanes
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