The Quotable Horse Lover (Quotable)
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"When your horse has reached his potential, leave it. It's such a nice feeling when you and your horses are still friends." --Dr. Reiner Klimke, Olympic dressage gold medalist
"My experiences with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame . . ." --Mark Twain
"There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing." --Will Rogers
Horses bring out the best in our kind; they inspire adoration and compassion. They act as both muse and catharsis for artists and writers of all centuries and genres. In the works of Homer, Aesop, Steinbeck, and Yeats, and in sources that range from the Bible and Dante's Inferno to West with the Night, references to horses abound. For such show-business personalities as Mr. Ed and Henny Youngman, horses are wonderful fodder. And politics, too, is rife with analogies to the horse, from the words of Winston Churchill to Governor Earl Long. With quotes from:
Dave Barry, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lewis Carroll, Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Walter Farley, W. C. Fields, Ian Fleming, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, Nikita Khrushchev, Rudyard Kipling, Groucho Marx, Thomas McGuane, Herman Melville, Plato, Damon Runyon, J. D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, Virgil, and more.
The Quotable Horse Lover is the perfect gift for all those who are crazy about these blessed beasts.
From the Back Cover
The Quotable Horse Lover gathers the most memorable quotes about horses ever written, recorded, or brought down through the ages.Horses bring out the best in our kind; they inspire adoration and compassion. They have served as both muse and catharsis for artists and writers of all centuries and genres. Horses illuminate the prose of literary giants - from Homer and Aesop to Steinbeck and Yeats and in sources that range from the Bible and Dante's Inferno to West with the Night, references to horses abound. In The Quotable Horse Lover, humorous remarks from the likes of Groucho Marx and Henny Youngman share the pages with valuable wisdom on training and horsemanship from widely honored trainers, past and present. What living creature is the most noble of all, and has spurred on great minds throughout history - from Shakespeare to Winston Churchill? All hippophiles know the answer. It is the horse, of course.For all those in love with this magnificent beast, The Quotable Horse Lover will reside close to the heart and never far form hand. (5 7/8 X 6 7/8, 404 pages, illustrations)
The Quotable Horse Lover (Quotable),Steven D. Price,The Lyons Press,1558219501,Animals,Horses,Horses - General,Pets,Quotations,Quotations, maxims, etc,Reference,Nature / Horses
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