| 401. | If training has not made a horse more beautiful, nobler in carriage, more attentive in his behavior, revealing pleasure in his own accomplishment...then he has not truly been schooled in dressage.
- Col. Handler
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| 402. | On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.
- Saki
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| 403. | 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.
- Duke of Edinburgh
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| 404. | To learn all that a horse could teach, was a world of knowledge, but only a beginning... Look into a horses eye and you instantly knowif you can trust him.
- Mary O'Hara
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| 405. | The one best precept-the golden rule in dealing with a horse-is never to approach him angrily. Anger is so deviod of forethought that it will often drive a man to do things which in a calmer mood he will regret.
- Xenophon
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| 406. | I heard a neigh, Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leaped with the sound.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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| 407. | The horse is a creature who sacrifices his own being to exist through the will of another...he is the noble conquest of man.
- Buffon
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| 408. | All the treasures of this earth lie between thine eyes. Thou shalt cast Mine enemies beneath thy hooves...This shall be the seat from whence prayers rise unto me.
- The Koran
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| 409. | ...he did not feel the ground under his feet...he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air...forelegs and hindlegs horizontal. He soared above the ground, his head high in jubilation. Conquering!
- Felix Salten
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| 410. | My horse has a hoof of striped agate; His fetlock is like fine eagle plume. His legs are like quick lightening. My horse has a tail like a trailing black cloud. His mane is made of short rainbows. My horse's eyes are made of big stars.
- Navajo war god's horse song
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