All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
Behan Brendan 1923-1964
The Hostage
PAT: He was an Anglo-Irishman.
MEG: In the blessed name of God what's that?
PAT: A Protestant with a horse.
Colton Charles Caleb c.1780-1832
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other to be buried.
Huller Thomas 1608-1661
If an ass goes travelling, he'll not come back a horse.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Good-Natured Man
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
Gould Bruce
In England I would rather be a man,a horse,a dog or a woman,in that order.In America I think the order would be reversed.
Hare Julius and Hare Augustus 1795-1855
Guesses at Truth
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.
Kavanagh Patrick 1905-1967
„The Great Hunger"
That was how his life happened.
No mad hooves galloping in the sky,
But the weak, washy way of true tragedy -
A sick horse nosing around the meadow for a clean place to die.
Keats John 1795-1821
‘Sleep and Poetry'
They swayed about upon a rocking horse,
And thought it Pegasus.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
„The Conundrum of the Workshops"
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse
is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoop, as he whooped of old:
„It's clever, but is it Art?"
Proverbs and Sayings
Lancashire
Shake a bridle over a Yourkshireman's grave, and he'll
rise and steal a horse.
Proverbs and Sayings
Latin
To spur a willing horse.
Royde-Smith Naomi c.1875-1964
Weekend Book
I know two things about the horse
And one of them is rather coarse.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Richard III
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Twelfth Night
My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.
Surtees R. S. 1805-1864
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
The Talmud
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‘Locksley Hall'
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,
Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Thomson James 1834-1882
‘Sunday up the River'
Give a man a horse he can ride,
Give a man a boat he can sail.
Virgil 70-19 BC
Aeneid
Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear
the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Whyte-Melville George John 1821-1878
„The Good Grey Mare"
But I freely admit that the best of my fun
I owe it to horse and hound.