No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Churchill
It takes a good deal of courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. – Stephen Leacock,
When a man is once run away with, the first thing that occurs to him, I imagine, is how to stop his horse; but men by no means agree in the modes of bringing this about. Geoffrey gambado, An Academy for grown horsemen.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. W. C. Fields US actor (1880 - 1946)
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 6:8.
"The gift of liberty is like that of a horse, handsome, strong, and high spirited. In some it arouses a wish to ride; in many others, on the contrary, it increases the desire to walk". Massimo d'Azeglio
" Das hoechste Glueck der Erde
liegt auf dem Ruecken der Pferde
am Herzen des Weibes
in der Gesundheit des Leibes"