Horses
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Where the giver of treasure? ~ Anonymous
Horses (Equus caballus, occasionally Equus ferus caballus) are large ungulates. Horses have had a long relationship with humans. There is evidence to suggest that horses have been domesticated since 4000 BC. The horse is prominent in religion, mythology, and art; it has played an important role in transportation, agriculture, and war.
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- Where is the horse gone? Where the rider?
Where the giver of treasure?
Where are the seats at the feast?
Where are the revels in the hall?
Alas for the bright cup!
Alas for the mailed warrior!
Alas for the splendour of the prince!
How that time has passed away,
dark under the cover of night,
as if it had never been!- Anonymous author of The Wanderer
- Before the gods that made the gods
Had seen their sunrise pass,
The White Horse of the White Horse Vale
Was cut out of the grass.
- Age beyond age on British land,
Aeons on aeons gone,
Was peace and war in western hills,
And the White Horse looked on.
- For the White Horse knew England
When there was none to know;
He saw the first oar break or bend,
He saw heaven fall and the world end,
O God, how long ago.For the end of the world was long ago,
And all we dwell to-day
As children of some second birth,
Like a strange people left on earth
After a judgment day.
- What a long night is this! I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns. Ca, ha! He bounds from the earth, as if his entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus, qui a les narines de feu! 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.
- Dauphin from Henry V, Act III, Scene VII, by William Shakespeare
- He is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him. He is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
- Dauphin from Henry V, Act III, Scene VII, by William Shakespeare
- A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
- Richard III, Richard III by William Shakespeare
- God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.
- Robert Cunninghame-Graham, in a 1917 letter to Theodore Roosevelt.
- Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?- Song sung by Aragorn in The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
- There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
- Robert Smith Surtees in Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, chapter 31
- Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clouthed his neck with thunder?
He paweth in the valley, and rejoice in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men.
He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.- Bible, Job 39:19
- A canter is the cure for every evil.
- Benjamin Disraeli, The Young Duke
- A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
- Ian Fleming, The Sunday Times (1966)
- As much as I like horses – they can keep their cheese.
- Martin Clunes (b. 1961), British comic actor. In an appearance on the Paul O’Grady Show, Channel 4 television, 7th Oct. 2009
- Koń jaki jest, każdy widzi.
- Horse is as everyone can see.
- Definition of a horse from the first encyclopedia written in Polish
- Benedykt Chmielowski, Nowe Ateny, 1745
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- There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
- No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
- A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves — strong, powerful, beautiful — and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
- And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse.... Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without any sword.
- Bedouin legend
- I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace.
- Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.
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- The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.
- Arabian proverb
- The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.
- Yiddish proverb
- A horse is worth more than riches.
- Spanish proverb
- The horse is God's gift to mankind.
- Arabian proverb
