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"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York."
"The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go...When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace."
"A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan."
"What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern?"
"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."
"As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer."
"When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes."
"Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you."
"Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?"
"I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice."
"Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen"
"I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you."
"Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses."
"Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses."
"Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch."
"His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse."
"Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!"
"If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all."
"A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view."
"Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it."
