| 451. | His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse...
- William Shakespeare. King Henry V.
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| 452. | When I bestride him, I soar. I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
- William Shakespeare. King Henry V.
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| 453. | He doth nothing but talk of his horses.
- William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice
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| 454. | To be loved by a horse, or by any animal, should fill us with awe - for we have not deserved it.
- Marion Garretty
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| 455. | The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a stable.
- S. Armstrong
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| 456. | In grateful and reverent memory of the Empire's horses (some 375000) who fell in the Great War (1914-1918). Most obediently, and often most painfully, they died.
- Memorial at Church of St. Jude, London
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| 457. | The horse is God's gift to mankind.
- Arabian Proverb
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| 458. | A horse is worth more than riches.
- Spanish Proverb
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| 459. | They say that princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
- Ben Johnson
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| 460. | Thou shall be for Man a source of happiness and wealth; thy back shall be a seat of honour, and thy belly of riches; every grain of barley given thee shall purchase indulgence for the sinner.
- The Koran
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