As wary as a blind horse. [ Proverb ]
A long ox and a short horse. [ Proverb ]
Set the cart before the horse. [ John Heywood ]
Many dogs soon eat up a horse. [ Proverb ]
A short horse is soon curried. [ Proverb ]
One can't shoe a runaway horse. [ Dutch Proverb ]
Spur not a free horse to death. [ Proverb ]
A horse made, and a man to make. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A race-horse is an open sepulchre. [ Proverb ]
The grey mare is the better horse. [ Proverb ]
All lay load on the willing horse. [ Proverb ]
One saddle in enough for one horse. [ Proverb ]
Look not a gift horse in the mouth. [ Proverb ]
Lay the saddle upon the right horse. [ Proverb ]
A jade eats as much as a good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
No horse so blind as the blind mare. [ Proverb ]
To win the horse or lose the saddle. [ Proverb ]
The master's eye makes the horse fat. [ Proverb ]
Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse. [ Proverb ]
A wild colt may become a sober horse. [ Proverb ]
A scabbed horse cannot abide the comb. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Better lose the saddle than the horse. [ Italian Proverb ]
A good horse should be seldom spurred. [ Proverb ]
Choose a horse made and a wife to make. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Furniture and mane make the horse sell. [ Proverb ]
To-morrow morning I found a horse shoe. [ Proverb ]
Hang not all your bells upon one horse. [ Proverb ]
To a greedy-eating horse a short halter. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Let the best horse leap the hedge first. [ Proverb ]
A young trooper should have an old horse. [ Proverb ]
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest. [ Proverb ]
It is ill to set spurs to a flying horse. [ Proverb ]
No dearth but begins with a horse-manger. [ Proverb ]
An hungry kite sees a dead horse afar off. [ Proverb ]
Fie, fie! horse-play is not for gentlemen. [ Proverb ]
Man is not the prince of creatures,
But in reason; fail that, he is worse
Than horse or dog, or beast of wilderness. [ Field ]
The common hackney horse is the worst shod. [ Proverb ]
A gilded bit does not make the horse better. [ Proverb ]
I am talking of hay, and you of horse beans. [ Proverb ]
He that gallops his horse on Blackstone edge
May chance to catch a fall. [ Old song ]
They that drive away time spur a free horse. [ Robert Mason ]
O, he's as tedious
As is a tired horse, a railing wife;
Worse than a smoky house; I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me,
In any summer-house in Christendom. [ William Shakespeare ]
An horse-kiss, like to beat one's teeth out. [ Proverb ]
The fault of the horse is put on the saddle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Death rides in triumph, - fell destruction
Lashes his fiery horse, and round about hint
His many thousand ways to let out souls. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
An inch of a horse is worth a span of a colt. [ Proverb ]
The old horse must die in somebody's keeping. [ Proverb ]
It is good to go a foot with a horse in hand. [ Proverb ]
You cannot judge of the horse by the harness. [ Proverb ]
To fall away from a horse load to a cart load. [ Proverb ]
Dogs never go into mourning when a horse dies. [ Proverb ]
It is good walking with a horse in one's hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The horse next the mill carries all the grist. [ Proverb ]
When the horse is starved, you bring him oats. [ Proverb ]
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other fowl. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I will either win the horse or lose the saddle. [ Proverb ]
Like a loader's horse, that lives among thieves. [ Proverb ]
A mare's shoe and a horse's shoe are both alike. [ Proverb ]
Proud is the horse that won't carry its own oats. [ Italian Proverb ]
A grunting horse and a groaning wife seldom fail. [ Proverb ]
Who eats his dinner alone, must saddle his horse. [ Proverb ]
Would you treat your horse with a peck of oysters? [ Proverb ]
You will ride a horse that was foaled of an acorn. [ Proverb ]
It is the horse that stumbles, and not the saddle. [ Proverb ]
It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse. [ Proverb ]
The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy, we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells. [ Cowper ]
Try to tame a mad horse, but knock him not at head. [ Proverb ]
Touch a galled horse on the back, and he will kick. [ Proverb ]
Who eats his cock alone must saddle his horse alone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
How can the foal amble when the horse and mare trot? [ Proverb ]
A scabbed horse is good enough for a scabbed knight. [ Proverb ]
It is the last feather that breaks the horse's back. [ Proverb ]
Better's the head of an ass than the tail of a horse. [ Proverb ]
The horse that draws his halter is not quite escaped. [ Proverb ]
A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can. [ Proverb ]
A horse is neither better nor worse for his trapping. [ Proverb ]
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. [ Proverb ]
It amounts to no more than the tail of a roasted horse. [ Proverb ]
A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats. [ Proverb ]
Patience is a stout horse, but it will tire at the last. [ Proverb ]
Save something for the man that rides on the white horse. [ Proverb ]
A cough will stick longer by a horse than a peck of oats. [ Proverb ]
Go steal a horse, and then you'll die without being sick. [ Proverb ]
I would have a good horse for myself, not for my brother. [ Proverb ]
It is the abilities of a horse that occasions his slavery. [ Proverb ]
It is a proud horse that will not carry his own provender. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Sure that is a butcher's horse, he carries a calf so well. [ Proverb ]
A man devoid of religion, is like a horse without a bridle. [ From the Latin ]
Sim steals the horse, and carries home the bridle honestly. [ Proverb ]
The horse thinks one thing and he that saddles him another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The master's eye fattens the horse and his foot the ground. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Like a mill-horse, that goes much, but performs no journey. [ Proverb ]
A man may lead his horse to water but cannot make him drink. [ Proverb ]
If an ass goes a travelling, he will not come home an horse. [ Proverb ]
Better is an ass that carries us than a horse that throws us. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
It is a silly horse that can neither whinny nor wag his tail. [ Proverb ]
He has a head as big as a horse, and brains as much as an ass. [ Proverb ]
He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. [ Proverb ]
A tired traveller must be glad of an ass, if he have not a horse. [ Proverb ]
One man may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge. [ Proverb ]
The horse that draws after him his halter is not altogether escaped. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mutton to a sick horse. [ Proverb ]
Take heed of an ox before, of a horse behind, of a monk on all sides. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [ Horace ]
Like a dog in a manger, you'll not eat yourself, nor let the horse eat. [ Proverb ]
He is so suspicious, that he cannot be got at without a stalking horse. [ Proverb ]
He that cannot ride a gentle horse must not attempt to back a mad colt. [ Proverb ]
I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A horse stumbles that hath four legs. (What wonder then, if two stumble.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death. [ Bible ]
Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. [ Thomas Hood ]
A Burston horse, and a Cambridge master of arts will give the way to nobody. [ Proverb ]
To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit. [ Lord Eldon ]
It is wit to pick a lock and steal a horse, but it is wisdom to let it alone. [ Proverb ]
Like the dog in the manger, he will neither eat himself nor let the horse eat. [ Proverb ]
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drink when and what he pleaseth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
An ass cover'd with gold is more respected, than a good horse with a pack-saddle. [ Proverb ]
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. [ Goldsmith ]
Guy Patin recommends to a patient to have no doctor but a horse, and no apothecary but an ass! [ Chesterfield ]
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
He who cannot govern his passions should kill them, as we kill a horse when we cannot master it. [ Chamfort ]
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle. [ Socrates ]
Contention, like a horse full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, and bears down all before him. [ William Shakespeare ]
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like a hack-horse setting out to gallop. [ Chamfort ]
For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I have found the saying of the ancients true, that better is a bright comrade on a weary road than a horse-litter. [ Charles Reade ]
Who lets his wife go to every feast, and his horse drink at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees a camel. [ George Eliot ]
Necessity is a strong rider with sharp spurs, who maketh the sorry jade do that which the strongest horse sometimes will not do. [ Calanus ]
It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway. [ Ouida ]
If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Imagination is a mettled horse that will break the rider's neck when a donkey would have carried him to the end of his journey, slow but sure. [ Southey ]
Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers. [ Marryat ]
A little neglect may breed great 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, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. [ Benjamin Franklin ]