If there's a lot of try in the human, there's a lot of forgiveness in a horse.
Walter Josey

...virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock ... I have given thee the power of flight without wings.
The Koran

When the Great Spirit willed to create the horse, He said to the South Wind, "I will that a creature should proceed from thee. Condense thyself". And the wind condensed itself. Then came the angel Gabriel saying, "I have called thee horse. I have attached good fortune to the hair that falls between thine eyes. Thou shall be the lord of all other animals, and men shall follow thee wheresoever thou goest. Thou shall fly without wings and upon thy back shall riches repose and through thy means shall blessings come."
same as above?

Behold, he cometh up as clouds,
And his chariots are as the whirlwind;
His horses are swifter than eagles--
Woe unto us. We are undone.
Jeremiah 4:13

Creature with a pretty face, wild spirit, gentle grace
walking in a golden lace beneath the open sky.
Unknown

A horse doesn't care how much you know until he knows how much you care.
Pat Parrelli

I am your equal. I am a wild creature that can never be like you. I have heart, courage, and the game spirit that is my heritage, and I will be respected. I will be taught, and I will please, and maybe in time I will be your intimate. But I will never be your possession. Mine is a fierce love, which knows no mercy for failure. No sympathy for weakness. I have come from the desert with its closeness to the spirit of nature which you do not understand. I was born of the Wind, mine is a warrior spirit. I cannot be humiliated in punishment or defeated even in death. For my spirit lives on in my children's children.
Unknown

...and he whispered to the horse, trust no man in whose eyes you do not see yourself reflected as an equal.
Unknown

The nature of the horse remains unchanged, whether it carries the saddle of the prince, or whether it draws the cart of the wagoner. The noble ones accept the yoke, they serve, but will never be slaves, for to themselves they can never be traitors.
H. H. Isenbart
The Kingdom of the Horse

Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, and always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.
William Cowper

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....he is pure air and fire...the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like the bidding of a monarch and his countenance enforces homage.
William Shakespeare

Anything forced and misunderstood can never be beautiful. And to quote the words of Simon: If a dancer was forced to dance by whip and spikes, he would be no more beautiful than a horse trained under similar conditions.
Xenophon, 400 B.C.

So did this horse excel a common one
In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone...
Round-hoof'd, 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

Sometime he trots, as if he told
the steps with gentle magesty and
pride. Anon, he rears upright,
curvets and leaps, as who should
say 'Lo, thus my strength is tried'
Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis

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
Unknown

A man sentanced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the year - on the condition that if he didn't succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year.
"Within a year," the man explained later, "the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly."
Unknown

I wish your horses swift and sure of foot;
And so do I commend you to their backs.
William Shakespeare

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

A ruthlessly condensed training only leads to a general superficiality, to travesties of the movements, and to a premature unsoundness of the horse. Nature cannot be violated.
Alois Podhajsky

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
Dagobert D. Runes

A love of horses brings suffering you see. But it may be that God gives them a shorter life on earth because they deserve heaven more than we do.
Unknown

...A large liquid eye...the swirl of dust around pounding hooves; You cannot remain unmoved by the greatness of conformation of a well-bred and well-trained horse... more than a thousand pounds of big-boned, well-muscled animal, yet forever a menace with its innocent power.
Unknown

...the animal should not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.
Henry Beston

If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.
Al Mutannabbi

Fine steeds, like true friends, are few, even if to the eye of the inexperienced they are many.
Al Mutannabbi

My treasures neither click nor glitter, but gleam in the sun and neigh in the night.
Arabian proverb

Many Are Called, But Few Come -- unless you have carrots.
Unknown

I whisper but my horse doesn't listen.
Unknown

My husband says if I buy one more horse he's going to leave me... I'm sure going to miss that man.
Unknown

people ought to quit worrying so much about whispering to their horses and just start listening to them.
Unknown

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 than a loan.
Unknown

My horses feet are 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.
Unknown

Horses are the dolphins of the plains, the spirits of the wind; yet we sit astride them for the sake of being well-groomed, where as they could have all the desire in the world to bolt, but instead, they adjust their speed and grace, only to please us, never to displease.
Unknown

Look back on our struggle for freedom, trace our present day's strength to its source,
and you'll find that man's pathway to glory...is strewn with the bones of a horse
Unknown

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.
Unknown