| 431. | When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he had lost what made him so beautiful and free....One out of every three mustangs captured in south west Texas was expected to die before they were tamed. The process often broke the spirits of the other two.
- J Frank Dobi
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| 432. | With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils, never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod A thousand horses-the wild-the free- Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.
- Lord Byron
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| 433. | What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
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| 434. | We have been companions now for centuries. I rode you in the high festival to the Parthenon and to the edges of the unknown world under the Shadow of the Eagles. Together we re-took the Holy Places, endured the horrors of the crossing to Crimea. You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally beside me.
- Pam Brown
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| 435. | No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle
- Winston Churchill
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| 436. | Horses have never hurt anyone yet, except when they bet on them.
- Stuart Cloete
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| 437. | Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.
- Monica Dickens
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| 438. | 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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| 439. | ...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.
- Josh Billings
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| 440. | In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes tight and commend yourself to God.
- Tuscan Proverb
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