- “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.”
- Damon Runyon - “The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.”
- James Joyce - “Never bet on a sure thing unless you can afford to lose.”
- Anonymous - “A horse gallops with his lungs,
Perseveres with his heart,
And wins with his character.”
- Tesio - “A Horse! A Horse! my kingdom for a horse!”
- Shakespeare - “If you want a kitten, start out asking for a horse.”
- Unknown - “You can lead a horse to manure but you can’t make him drink.”
- Unknown - “Horses just naturally have mohawk haircuts.”
- Unknown - “The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.”
- Jacqueline Kennedy - “Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they’ll both win for you.”
- Elizabeth Arden - “He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”
- Benjamin Franklin - “If you cut a dog’s head off, you get 25 hours bad luck. It is bad luck to kill a pegasus, unicorn,
horse, or similar, if it is pure white in colour. (Followers of Dark and Death tend to disregard this).” - “I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.”
- Woody Allen - “Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”
- W C Fields - “Look not a gift horse in the mouth.”
- Unknown - If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come back a horse.
- Thomas Fuller
