“You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.”

“The only thing about a man that is a man… is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.”

Archibald Macleish (1892–1982) American poet and Librarian of Congress

“We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN

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

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

“Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty… For what task, then, were you yourself created?”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

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

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

“You have not stirred my spirit. For what can I see in you to stir me, as a spirited horse will stir a judge of horses? Your body? That you maltreat. Your dress? That is luxurious. Your behavior, your look?—Nothing whatsoever.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get down as you would from a house afire. You make a spectacle of yourself every time.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist