A real Centauröpart man, part horse's ass. A rough appraisal, but curiously true.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  Of President  Johnson.13  Apr.

A good rider may often be thrown from his horse, And climb on once again to face forward his course, Which is how I went forward myself on my way, And come,Christ, and give me my true judgment day.

-Anonymous
c TraditionalIrish poem. Translatedby Owen Dudley Edwards.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.

-Armstrong, Louis known as Satchmo
Quoted in the NewYork Times,7  Jul1971.

No horse's cry was that, most like the roar Of some pained desert lion, who all day Hath trailed the hunter's javelin in his side, And comes at night to die upon the sand.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'Sohrab and Rustum', l.501^4.

Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valleyand rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 39:19^21.

  I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 32:8^9.

And I looked, and beholda palehorse: and hisnamethat sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 6:8.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation19:11.

As for the grass, it grewas scant as hair in leprosyöthin dried blades pricked the mud which underneath looked kneaded up with blood. One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, stood stupefied.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'.

She has always ridden the passions as if they were a magnificent horse.

-Broyard, Anatole
  On Edna O'Brien. In the NewYork Times,1  Jan.

You praise the firm restraint with which they writeö I'm with you there, of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where's the bloody horse?

-Campbell, (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie
  'On Some South  African Novelists'.

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horseöGerman.

-CharlesV
Attributed.

A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logyk hadde longe ygo. As leene was his hors as is a rake.

-Chaucer, Geoffrey
  Canterbury  Tales,'General Prologue', l.285^7.

'Is there anybody there?'said theTraveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor.

-de la Mare,Walter
  'The Listeners'.

   'Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!'said Mr Gradgrind† 'Girl number twenty possessed of no facts, in reference to one of the commonest of animals!'† 'Bitzer'said Thomas Gradgrind.'Your definition of a horse.' 'Quadruped.Graminivorous. Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in the spring; in marshy countries, sheds hoofs, too. Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron. Age known by marks in mouth.' Thus (and much more) Bitzer. 'Now girl number twenty,'said Mr Gradgrind.'You know what a horse is.'

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  Hard Times, bk.1, ch.2.

A little neglect may breed mischief†for want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.

-Franklin, Benjamin
  Poor Richard's  Almanack, preface.

I was always well mounted. I am fond of a horse, and always piqued myself on having the fastest trotter in the Province. I have made no great progress in the world. I feel doubly, therefore, the pleasure of not being surpassed on the road.

-Hales, Stephen
  The Clockmaker (first series),'The Trotting Horse'.

A camel is a horse designed bya committee.

-Issigonis, SirAlec (AlexanderArnold Constantine)
Attributed to him in The Guardian,14  Jan1991.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Of Edwards's criticism of  Thomas Warburton. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.

-Kingsley, Charles
  Song. The Water Babies, ch.2.