In honor of Nationwide Day of the Horse on Dec. 13, get pleasure from a few of our favourite quotes celebrating the sweetness, energy, and beauty of the horse:

“There’s something concerning the outdoors of a horse that’s good for the within of a person.”—Winston Churchill

“A horse gallops along with his lungs, perseveres along with his coronary heart, and wins along with his character.” —Federico Tesio

“Horse sense is the factor a horse has which retains it from betting on folks.”—W. C. Fields

“A beautiful horse is at all times an expertise. … It’s an emotional expertise of the type that’s spoiled by phrases.”— Beryl Markham

“A canter is a remedy for each evil.”— Benjamin Disraeli

“There are different issues that I may do, however there’s actually nothing that I like as a lot as horse racing.”—Chantal Sutherland

“We’ve nearly forgotten how unusual a factor it’s that so enormous and highly effective and clever an animal as a horse ought to permit one other, and much more feeble animal, to trip upon its again.”—Peter Grey

“Braveness is being scared to loss of life however saddling up anyway.”—John Wayne

“I found that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but additionally an instance of life’s thriller and unpredictability, of life’s generosity and sweetness, a worthy object of repeated and ever altering contemplation.”—Jane Smiley

“I could make a Common in 5 minutes however a very good horse is tough to interchange.”—Abraham Lincoln

“Put your hand in your horse and your coronary heart in your hand.”—Pat Parelli

“A horse is value greater than riches”—Spanish proverb

“The horse is an archetypal image which can at all times discover methods to fire up deep and transferring ancestral recollections in each human being.”—Paul Mellon

“A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an maturity treasure.”—Rebecca Carroll

“Using a horse isn’t a delicate passion, to be picked up and laid down like a recreation of solitaire. It’s a grand ardour.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Once I bestride him, I soar. I’m a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is extra musical that the pipe of Hermes.”— William Shakespeare

“A horse is the projection of peoples’ desires about themselves — sturdy, highly effective, stunning — and it has the aptitude of giving us escape from our mundane existence.”—Pam Brown

“… There isn’t a different feeling on the earth to check with it if one loves an amazing horse. It offers a thrill that nothing else ever can. It can’t be put into phrases, as a result of phrases can’t categorical it.”—Samuel Riddle

“The horse, with magnificence unsurpassed, power immeasurable, and beauty not like some other, nonetheless stays humble sufficient to hold a person upon his again.”—Amber Senti

“It isn’t sufficient for a person to know the right way to trip; he should know the right way to fall.”—Mexican Proverb

“Someplace … someplace in time’s personal house

There should be some candy pastured place

The place creeks sing on and tall bushes develop

Some paradise the place horses go.

For by the love that guides my pen

I do know nice horses dwell once more.”

—Stanley Harrison