Just Stallions

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
-Ronald Reagan

I’ve always said I’m a good horse but still an underdog
-Martina Hingis

This is a really lovely horse, I once rode her mother.
-Ted Walsh

A good horse is much more important [than a woman].
-Max Brand

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
-Arthur Wellesley

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
-Jackie Kennedy

I know two things about the horse And one of them is rather coarse. (Weekend Book 1928)
-Naomi Royde-Smith

I’ve spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren’t you?
-Jeremy Paxman

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
-Ian Fleming

How do you catch a loose horse? Make a sound like a carrot.
-British Cavalry joke

I prefer a bike to a horse. The brakes are more easily checked.
-Lambert Jeffries

The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.
-Rosa Bonheur

A horse that does not go well upon his haunches, can never do well in the Manege, so that our whole study is to put him upon them; but I would have you understand, when a horse may properly be said to be upon his haunches, and when not.
-William Cavendish

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
-W C Fields

Want to end up with a million bucks in the horse business? Start out with five million.
-Anonymous

It is damnably hard to know for certain which horse will win … but a trainer, jockey or groom can often be very sure indeed that a horse will lose.
-Matthew Engel

In racing to insult a man’s horse is worse than insulting a wife.
-John Oaksey

A racetrack is a place where the human race is secondary.
-Anonymous

Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.
-Bill Barich

One man’s wrong lead is another man’s counter-canter.
-Steven D. Price

The world should be postponed for a whore and a horse race.
-Horace Walpole Fourth Earl Of Oxford

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.
-Mark Twain

Riding is simple…it’s just not easy.
-Anonymous

Don’t fall off.
-Advice given by Hollie Hughes, and elderly trainer

Riding-the art of keeping a horse between you and the ground.
-Anonymous

The left side is the right side, and the right side is the wrong side.
-Maxim about where to mount and dismount

I ride horses because it’s the only sport where I can exercise while sitting down.
-Joan Hanson

Keep one leg on one side, the other leg on the other side, and your mind in the middle.
-Henry Taylor

Experienced riders are not prone to brag. And usually newcomers, if they start out being boastful, end up modest.
-C. J. J. Mullen

The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.
-Geoffrey Brooke

May your belly never grumble,
May your heart never ache.
May your horse never stumble,
May your cinch never break.
-Cowboy Blessing

Every time you ride, you’re either teaching or un-teaching your horse.
-Gordon Wright

There is no greater pleasure than a nice ride on a nice horse on a beautiful day.
-Judy Richter

In what other sport do you put on leather boots, stretch-fabric breeches, a shirt and tie, a wool jacket, a velvet-covered cap, and leather gloves, and then go out and ride?
-A. London Wolf

Had I but known about breathing in my youth, how much simpler my competitive riding life would have been.
-Victor Hugo-Vidal

Are you – poor, sick old ere your time -
Nearer one white your own sublime
Than we who have never turned a rhyme?
Sing, riding’s a joy!
For me, I ride.
-Robert Browning

A perfect book on riding could be written only by a horse.
-Vladimir S. Littauer