If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.
As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.
I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.
Never mistake movement for action... a rocking horse moves; a race horse charges towards a goal.
I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one.
"I won't tie up the mule in a horse's place," says the widow.
The lucky fellow loses his wife, the unlucky fellow loses his horse.
A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.
A donkey that carries me is worth more than a horse that kicks me.
Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear, and a man from all sides.
Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear, and man from all sides.
The horse may run quickly, but it can't escape its own tail.
Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses.
The father may well be a horse, but it's most likely that the son will be a mule.
Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B's: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.
