Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old horseback riding quotes, horseback riding sayings, and horseback riding proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.Gerald Raferty
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It's always been and always will be the same in the world.The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped.Anonymous
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There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.John Lubbock
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A horse is the projection of peoples dreams about themselves, strong, powerful, beautiful. And it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.Pam Brown
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If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.Chris LeDoux
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Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.Terry Pratchett
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.Olivia Wilde
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When your horse follows you without being asked, when he rubs his head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle down your spine, you know you are loved.John Lyons
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Horse riding is so much more then just horse riding, its so much harder then most people think.Anonymous
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The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact
with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom.Sharon Ralls Lemon
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There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.R.S. Surtees
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The horse, with beauty unsurpassed, strength immeasurable and grace unlike any other, still remains humble enough to carry a man upon his back.Amber Senti
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Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb.Will Rogers
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.John Steinbeck
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.Ovid
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The earth would be nothing without the people, but the man would be nothing without the horse.Anonymous
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A good horse should be seldom spurred.Thomas Fuller
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I have seen things so beautiful they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.Anonymous
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It's a lot like nuts and bolts, if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!Nicholas Evans
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To ride a horse is to ride the sky.Anonymous
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I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that my art is not above the ordinary.Mark Twain
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If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.Heath Ledger
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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.Marya Mannes
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Slippery-smooth rhythmic motion, absolute single-minded purpose, motion for the pleasure of motion itself. It was terrible it its beauty, the flight of the horse.Larry Niven
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.Gabriel Heatter
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Horseback riding is the only sport where your equipment can decide not to cooperate with you. Feeling down? Saddle up.Anonymous
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In riding a horse we borrow freedom.Helen Thomson
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Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.Franklin P. Jones
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It's the aspirin of horseback riding, it cures everything.Nuno Oliveira
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No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.Winston Churchill
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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.Pam Brown
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A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.Prince Philip
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Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.Nuno Oliveira
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Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.Nuno Oliveira
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When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.Winston Churchill
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In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.Helen Thompson Woolley
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No one can teach riding so well as a horse.C. S. Lewis
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Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.Rumi
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A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.Monty Roberts
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I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.Kublai Khan
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A woman never looks better than on horseback.Jane Austen
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If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.Odd Nerdrum
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A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.Benjamin Franklin
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It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.Stephen Leacock
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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.Texas Bix Bender
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load. Ride not a free horse to death.Miguel de Cervantes
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There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.Will Rogers
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The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another.John Ray
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A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.Edward Herbert
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No ride is ever the last one. No horse is ever the last one you will have. Somehow there will always be other horses, other places to ride them.Monica Dickens
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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A bad ride is much better than a good walk.J. Peter Grace