Horse Poems, Quotes & Jokes

A horse doesn’t care how much you know, until he knows how much you care.

~Pat Parelli

Why did this animal that had prospered so in the Colorado desert leave his amiable homeland for Siberia?  There is no answer.  We know that when the horse negotiated the land bridge… he found on the other end an opportunity for varied development that is one of the bright aspects of animal history.  He wandered into France and became the mighty Percheron, and into Arabia, where he developed into a lovely poem of a horse, and into Africa where he became the brilliant zebra, and into Scotland, where he bred selectively to form the massive Clydesdale.  He would also journey into Spain, where his very name would become the designation for gentleman, a caballero, a man of the horse.  There he would flourish mightily and serve the armies that would conquer much of the known world. 

The essential joy of being with horses
is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements
of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.

–Sharon Ralls Lemon

Many people have sighed for the ‘good old days’
and regretted the ‘passing of the horse,’
but today, when only those who like horses own them,
it is a far better time for horses.

–C.W. Anderson