Favourite Equine Quotes, and why...

You will make mistakes
Your horse will make mistakes
As long as you overcome them together all will be well

As quoted by my Trainer whenever things get difficult or people are wobbling.


and my favourite

"Be Reasonable do it my way" Which is on the tack room wall
 
Maesefen I love that picture - and that quote "The finest view in England".

My favourite quote comes from one of a trilogy of horse/hunting poetry books written around the time of The Great War by W H Ogilvie. The subject of this particular poems is the remounts, private horses commandeered to replace the chargers which were injured or killed. These remounts went from quiet secure little worlds to the horrors of battle. The two lines that break my heart are:
 
Sorry, the bogey man leapt in with a mini power cut -
As I was aying.... the two favourite lines are:

And let them find in those far lands
Kindly hearts and horseman's hands.

It's particularly poignant to me because of what happened to my father in that war. He was commanding a squadron of mounted infantry in Salonika (the Derbyshire Yeomanry). They were ambushed during what they thought was a lull, and several of the horses were stolen, including my father's (his English hunter). When I once foolishly asked him what was the worst thing he had to do in that war he broke down and said "shoot my own horse". They were involved in another skirmish a few days later, and one of the enemy (the Bulgars, as they were always referred to) was riding my father's horse, which he said already looked a total wreck.

I've tried to live my horse life by the maxim of that last line, and I want it engraved on my tomb to prompt future horsemen to think...
 
Maesfen said:
Not a saying but a picture title depicting the view between the ears with countryside stretching before it (and hounds of course!) 'the best view in England'.
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and this leads me to think of the quote:

'The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.'
 
"You are a great champion. When you ran, the ground shook, the sky opened and mere mortals parted. Parted the way to victory, where you'll meet me in the winner's circle, where I'll put a blanket of flowers on your back."
 
I like this one

"A woman needs two animals in her life, the horse of her dreams and the jackass to pay for it!"

Sadly I have always been short of the jackass...
 
Rose Folly said:
Sorry, the bogey man leapt in with a mini power cut -
As I was aying.... the two favourite lines are:

And let them find in those far lands
Kindly hearts and horseman's hands.

It's particularly poignant to me because of what happened to my father in that war. He was commanding a squadron of mounted infantry in Salonika (the Derbyshire Yeomanry). They were ambushed during what they thought was a lull, and several of the horses were stolen, including my father's (his English hunter). When I once foolishly asked him what was the worst thing he had to do in that war he broke down and said "shoot my own horse". They were involved in another skirmish a few days later, and one of the enemy (the Bulgars, as they were always referred to) was riding my father's horse, which he said already looked a total wreck.

I've tried to live my horse life by the maxim of that last line, and I want it engraved on my tomb to prompt future horsemen to think...
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hey rosefolly, thats so sad your poor dad that had to do that! Great that you have found such a strong meaning in those words though xx
 
"there is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of man" - Winston Churchill.
I love that one because sometimes all I have to do is look at my boy and I feel my soul lift, my worries fade and all I see is him. *soppy!*
Our local big competition centre has quotes all round the Walls and some of them are brilliant!
"when you get to my age and you fall off you don't bounce....you splat" John Wayne
That's my favourite!
 
A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! ~ William Shakespeare, Richard III

He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts. ~William Shakespeare, Henry V

In riding a horse we borrow freedom. ~Helen Thomson

God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses. ~R.B. Cunninghame Graham, letter to Theodore Roosevelt

Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself. ~Author Unknown
 
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