Come to me, Gilgamesh, and be my bridegroom . . . I will harness for you a chariot of lapis lazuli and of gold, with wheels of gold and of copper; and you shall have mighty demons of the storm for draft mules.
--Epic of Gilgamesh
No human-animal relationship is more intimate, both mentally and physically, than that between the mount and rider, for the two share and interspecies unity of understanding and kinetic communication that is unparalleled.
--Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross
To see a fine lady upon a white horse.
Rings n her fingers, and bells on her toes,
She shall have music wherever she goes.
--English nursury rhyme
I am everlasting peaceful.
I stand for my horse.
--Navaho song
The delicate balance in riding between risk and power delights and rewards.
--Lawrence Scanlan
The horse speaks to us of elegance and beauty, spirit and proud lineage.
--Lawrence Scanlan
There is no journey like one on horseback.
--Lawrence Scanlan
Something about the outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man.
--Winston Churchill
God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses.
-- letter to Theodore Roosevelt
To sit astride a walking horse is to banish time and live, as the horse lives, in the moment.
-- L. Scanlan
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot.
-- J. Steinbeck
To err is human; to forgive, equine.
Riding turns “I wish” . . . into “I can.”
-- P. Brown
Volunteers are not paid – not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.
In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
--H. Thompson
His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.
--Jerry Shulman
No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.
-- W. Churchill
He doth nothing but talk of his horses.
--Shakespeare
We make a living by what we get, but
we are able to make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill
The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears.
-- Arabian Proverb
Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around, encouraging young things to grow.
