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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Richard III, V, iv
A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
James Henry Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859
The Horse Wounded in Battle
O friend of Man! O noble creature,
Patient and brave and mild by nature,
Mild by nature and mute as mild,
Why brings he to these passes wild
Thee, gentle Horse, thou shape of beauty?
Could he not do his dreadful duty
(if duty it be, which seems mad folly),
Nor link thee to his melancholy?
Dick Francis, 1920-
Banker
Stallions aren’t machines, you know; they’re individuals like everyone else.
High Stakes
I began to grow interested in him in a way which had not before occurred to me: as a person who happened also to be a horse.
Rosa Bonheur, 1822-1899
Rosa Bonheur, a Life and a Legend
The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is vice or property that makes him ugly. He is responsible for his own decadence, while the horse is only a slave that the Creator has given to man, who abuses it out of his ingratitude and his worldly and egoistic poverty, until he becomes lower than the animal itself.
President Bill Clinton
Horses are a vital part of our nation's culture and history. Their strength and stamina enabled our forefathers to explore and settle America, and they have become our faithful companions in work, sport and leisure.
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