Equine Behavior Quotes

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do.

One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.

When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses.

When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

I'm a horseback rider. I know how to use a whip.

I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.

Vin snorted, kneeling in the low tent as she pulled her belt tight; then she crawled over to him. "I don't know how you read while riding," she said. "Oh, it's quite easy - if you aren't afraid of horses." "I'm not afraid of them," Vin said. "They just don't like me. They know I can outrun them, and that makes them surly.

The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.

Different horses have different personalities. They're just like people.

The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

I think I've always used the whip in the correct way. I see marked horses every day, and it's not a pretty sight, but I've never marked a horse. Never.

The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.

There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!

A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.

I love horses, and when the SPCA tells me off I get real mad because I know more about horses than they do. They say you can't rear a horse up backwards, but I do it so they fall into foam rubber and don't get hurt at all.

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.