George Herbert Horse Quotations

You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

To a greedy eating horse a short halter.

The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.

The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.

Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.

It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.

It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.

I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

A jade eates as much as a good horse.

A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]

Good horses make short miles.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

Flies are busiest about leane horses.

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.