The Quotable Horse Lover

What's not to like about this book? It's a great gift for any horse enthusiast, reasonably-priced and will be referred to often.

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.

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.

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.