“Horses can manufacture more horses and that is one trick that tractors have never learned.”

“The garden of life never seems to confine itself to the plot philosophers have laid out for its convenience maybe a few more tractors would do the trick.”

“Plato finds it necessary to separate, for example, "horseness" from "horse" and say that horseness is real and fixed and true and unmoving, while the horse is a mere, unimportant, transitory phenomenon. Horseness is pure Idea. The horse that one sees is a collection of changing Appearances, a horse that can flux and move around all it wants to and even die on the spot without disturbing horseness, which is the Immortal Principle and can go on forever in the path of the Gods of old.”

“A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.”

“One great part of the joculator's profession was the teaching of bears, apes, horses, dogs, and other animals, to imitate the actions of men, to tumble, to dance, and to perform a variety of tricks, contrary to their nature; and sometimes he learned himself to counterfeit the gestures and articulations of the brutes.”

“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

“There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.”

“You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.”

“Never look a gift horse in the mouth.”
Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.

“One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”