The Quotable Horse Lover [Hardcover]

Steven D. Price (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1999 | Series: Quotable

"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.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

The Quotable Horse Lover gathers the most memorable quotes about horses ever written, recorded, or brought down through the ages.Horses bring out the best in our kind; they inspire adoration and compassion. They have served as both muse and catharsis for artists and writers of all centuries and genres. Horses illuminate the prose of literary giants - from Homer and Aesop to Steinbeck and Yeats and in sources that range from the Bible and Dante's Inferno to West with the Night, references to horses abound. In The Quotable Horse Lover, humorous remarks from the likes of Groucho Marx and Henny Youngman share the pages with valuable wisdom on training and horsemanship from widely honored trainers, past and present. What living creature is the most noble of all, and has spurred on great minds throughout history - from Shakespeare to Winston Churchill? All hippophiles know the answer. It is the horse, of course.For all those in love with this magnificent beast, The Quotable Horse Lover will reside close to the heart and never far form hand. (5 7/8 X 6 7/8, 404 pages, illustrations)

About the Author

Steven D. Price is the author of fourteen books on equestrian subjects, including the best-selling The Whole Horse Catalog. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Chronicle of the Horse, Practical Horseman, and America's Horse.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: The Lyons Press; 1st edition (October 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558219501
• ISBN-13: 978-1558219502
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,487,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Horse quotes, November 23, 1999

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Rebecca L. Ohlde (Amarillo, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Quotable Horse Lover (Hardcover)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A nearly inexhaustible supply of great equine quotations!, February 22, 2004

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Monika "equestrienne_23" (Davis, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Quotable Horse Lover (Hardcover)

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Quotable Horse Lover, March 5, 2003

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This review is from: The Quotable Horse Lover (Hardcover)

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.