Horses are one of the most majestic creatures that walk our planet. With their silky manes and their fearless galloping, horses have always been admired by many throughout the world.
As a spirit animal, horses represent unbridled passion, a wild and free spirit, and authority. Native Americans consider them as “God dogs.”
Besides being symbols of freedom and success, horses have played a role in the many wars and battles of human history. Many great warriors and conquerors like Napoleon Bonaparte and Julius Caesar have their noble steed to ride them to action.
In mythology, horses appear as unicorns or as a Pegasus. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse riding to cause death, famine, war, and pestilence atop their steed.
Embrace your freedom and unleash your passion through some of the most famous and inspirational horse quotes and sayings.
A good horse should be seldom spurred.— Thomas Fuller
We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits – and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.— Simone Weil
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.— Rebecca West
My two great loves are music and horses.— Betty Buckley
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.— Thomas Mann
If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.— Marty Allen
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.— John Steinbeck
Competitions are for horses, not artists.— Bela Bartok
When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar.— Douglas Horton
But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.— Julie Benz
A camel is a horse designed by committee.— Alec Issigonis
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.— Theophrastus
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.— Herman Melville
Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.— Jon Porter
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.— Alice Walker
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.— Harvey Cox
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.— Groucho Marx
You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you.— Elton Gallegly
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.— Arthur Wellesley
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.— Gabriel Heatter
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.— Thomas Fuller
I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.— Linda McCartney
The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.— Mason Cooley
A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.— Ian Fleming
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.— Ovid
It’s been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.— Elton Gallegly
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.— John Adams
But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.— William Cavendish
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.— John Moody
Ride the horse in the direction that it’s going.— Werner Erhard
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.— Anthony Trollope
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
A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.— Xenophon
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.— Charles Ives
When a man’s mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.— John Webster
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.— Stan Laurel
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.— Ovid
Don’t worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.— John Madden
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.— Thomas Fuller
As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.— Buffalo Bill
But there is nothing to be done till a horse’s head is settled.— William Cavendish
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn’t understand the horse dealer’s language.— Max Frisch
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.— Mark Twain
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.— Walter Lippmann
The wildest colts make the best horses.— Plutarch
If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.— Richie Allen
“You’re better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn’t wanna wander from the stable at night.” Betty Grable
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it’s the risk, the gamble. In any event it’s a thing I need.— William Faulkner
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.— Paul Bryant
In summer winter rain or sun, it’s good to be on horseback.— Mike Oldfield
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.— Lee Westwood