Horse Ticklers

1. A horse is forever.
2. My other car is a horse.
3. A horse is an angel without wings.
4. In training horses, one trains himself.
5. In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
6. I whisper to my horse, but he never listens!
7. Be wary of the horse with a sense of humour.
8. Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.
9. What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age.
10. It is the difficult horses that have the most to give you.
11. The hardest thing about learning to ride is the ground!
12. Wind from heaven is in which blows between a horse's ears.
13. A dog may be man's best friend...but the horse wrote history.
14. When you compete with a horse in heat she can cost you the win.
15. A horse is an animal, not a machine and is only as good as its rider.
16. My horse is very quick, sometimes he's so quick he leaves me behind.
17. There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it.
18. Our greatest glory is not-in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
19. You can love a horse and ride it and a horse can love you and squash you.
20. A horse doesn't care how much you know until he knows how much you care.
21. Grooming : the process by which the dirt on the horse is transferred to the groom.
22. My horse is security conscience...he always likes to bolt the stable door when I leave.
23. You never get the pleasure of owning a horse; you only have the pleasure of being its slave.
24. A horse is like a best friend. They're always there to nuzzle you and make your life a better place.
25. A western horse has guts and commitment, an English horse has grace and elegance, but my horse has it all!
26. There are only two emotions that belong in the saddle; one is a sense of humour and the other is patience.
27. When your horse follows you without being asked, when he rubs his head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle down your spine you know you are loved...and unconditionally...
28. A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.
29. No matter how much machinery replaces the horse, the work it can do still measured in horsepower...even in this space age.
30. The love for a horse is just as complicated as the love for another human being...if you never love a horse, you will never understand.
31. " You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink, " is an old saying that is not exactly true, because anybody that's ever been around horses would know if the horse didn't want to go to water then it wouldn't!
32. The cowboy rushed into the saloon yelling, "All right, who's the wise guy that painted my horse yellow?" There was silence in the saloon. "Fess up if you dare," shouted the cowboy. With that, the biggest, meanest-looking hombre he had ever seen got up from one of the tables, rested his hands on his gun handles and coolly stated, "I did, whaddaya want to tell me?" The cowboy looked up and down at this terrifying figure, swallowed hard and replied, "Just thought you'd like to know, the first coat's dry!"

     

*Taken from the National Horse Show Malaysia 2006 (Perak) souvenir booklet*