Good horses make short miles. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hungry horses make a clean manger. [ Proverb ]
Ragged colts may make fine horses. [ Proverb ]
Others set carts before the horses. [ Rabelais ]
Flies are busiest about lean horses. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Galled horses cannot endure the comb. [ Proverb ]
Good horses cannot be of a bad colour. [ Proverb ]
They cannot set their horses together. [ Proverb ]
Barbarous asses ride on Barbary horses. [ Proverb ]
Resty horses must be roughly dealt with. [ Proverb ]
Asses fetch the oats and horses eat them. [ Dutch Proverb ]
Gamesters and race-horses never last long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The biggest horses are not the best travellers. [ Proverb ]
They are scarce of horses when two ride on a dog. [ Proverb ]
England's the paradise of women, and hell of horses. [ Proverb ]
Idleness and chastity cannot set their horses together. [ Proverb ]
Passion and deliberation never set their horses together. [ Proverb ]
Keep your plough jogging, so you have corn for your horses. [ Proverb ]
Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses. [ Proverb ]
He delights in horses, and dogs, and the grass of the sunny plain. [ Horace ]
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. [ William Penn ]
I like books. I was born and bred among them, and have the easy feeling when I get in their presence, that a stable-boy has among horses. [ O. W. Holmes ]
When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins. [ Mrs. Browning ]
If as much care were taken to perpetuate a race of fine men as is done to prevent the mixture of ignoble blood in horses and dogs, the genealogy of every one would be written on his face and displayed in his manners. [ Voltaire ]
Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune; such is the extensiveness thereof, that it stoopeth so low as brute beasts, yet mounteth as high as angels; horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells, jingle away their weariness. [ T. Fuller ]
Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. [ Carlyle ]