The Quotable Horse Lover (Quotable) (ISBN 1592280161)

Book Description:
"When your horse has reached his potential, leave it. It's such a nice feeling when you and your horses are still friends." --Dr. Reiner Klimke, Olympic dressage gold medalist "My experiences with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame . . ." --Mark Twain "There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing." --Will Rogers Horses bring out the best in our kind; they inspire adoration and compassion. They act as both muse and catharsis for artists and writers of all centuries and genres. In the works of Homer, Aesop, Steinbeck, and Yeats, and in sources that range from the Bible and Dante's Inferno to West with the Night, references to horses abound. For such show-business personalities as Mr. Ed and Henny Youngman, horses are wonderful fodder. And politics, too, is rife with analogies to the horse, from the words of Winston Churchill to Governor Earl Long. With quotes from: Dave Barry, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lewis Carroll, Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Walter Farley, W. C. Fields, Ian Fleming, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, Nikita Khrushchev, Rudyard Kipling, Groucho Marx, Thomas McGuane, Herman Melville, Plato, Damon Runyon, J. D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, Virgil, and more. The Quotable Horse Lover is the perfect gift for all those who are crazy about these blessed beasts.

Horse quotes:
Where can you find horse-related quotes from Mr. Ed, Napoleon Bonaparte, Plato and Mark Twain? In "The Quotable Horse Lover" by Steven D. Price. You'll be amazed by the number of people who had something to say about horses.

A nearly inexhaustible supply of great equine quotations!:
Editor Stephen D. Price must have done a phenomenal amount of work compiling this wonderful collection of more than 300 pages of horse-related quotes. The selected quotations cover all imaginable aspects of the horse world, and are divided into eight categories: Horses in Literature, Riding and Training, Out of the West, A Shakespearean Interlude, Racing - The Sport of Kings, A Pack of Hunting Quotations, Horse Laughs, and Horse Truths. Length varies from simple one-liners to several paragraphs or entire poems. Included among those people quoted are such notables as Rudyard Kipling, Leon Trotsky, Benjamin Franklin, Dante, Virgil, Walt Whitman, Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, J.D. Salinger, Francois Rabelais, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Blake, John Milton, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Marco Polo, Homer, George Eliot, Walter Farley, Plato, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Steinbeck, Herman Melville, Sir Winston Churchill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sigmund Freud, Roy Rogers, Meriwether Lewis, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Degas, Oscar Wilde, Marguerite Henry, John Adams, Xenophon, Martin Luther, Mao Tse-Tung, Nikita Kruschev, Napoleon Bonaparte, and many others; some are also taken from texts such as Aesop's Fables, The Bible, The Koran, and the Psalms. Also included are renowned horsemen and horsewomen William Steinkraus, John Lyons, Linda Tellington-Jones, Mary Wanless, Reiner Klimke, Sally Swift, Anne Kursinski, and Monty Roberts. The editor even stuck one of his own in with "One man's wrong lead is another man's counter-canter" (pg. 269). This would be a terrific coffee-table book, quick-reference for finding all manner of horse quotes, or gift idea for a horse-crazed friend. An index in the back makes looking up quotes by a particular author very easy, and biographical notes provide helpful information on the authors. My only criticism is that I'd like to see short explanations for some of the more obscure quotes that use antiquated terms or expressions that aren't always familiar to people of today. Other than that, this is a wonderful compilation that I would highly recommend.

The Quotable Horse Lover:
This book is perfect for anyone who loves horses. It's small and fat and a perfect coffee table book. I recommend taking the beautiful advice of the authors and trainers that tell you tiny bits of their priceless wisdom in just a sentence or two. lovely quotes for any horse or horseless occasion.

A great gift:
What's not to like about this book? It's a great gift for any horse enthusiast, reasonably-priced and will be referred to often.