| My experience of horses is that they never
throw away a chance to go lame, and that in all respects they are well meaning
and unreliable animals. I have also observed that if you refuse a high price
for a favorite horse, he will go and lay down somewhere and die. - San Francisco Bulletin, 12/6/1866 I know the horse too well. I have known the horse in war and in peace,
and there is no place where a horse is comfortable. A horse thinks of
too many things to do which you do not expect. He is apt to bite you in
the leg when you think he is half asleep. The horse has too many caprices,
and he is too much given to initiative. He invents too many new ideas.
No, I don't want anything to do with a horse. |
Benjamin
West Clinedinst's |
...I am not an expert in horses and do not speak with assurance. I can always
tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that my art is not above
the ordinary.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
If the horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.
- Mark Twain's notebook #42
I am one of the poorest horsemen in the world, and I never mount a horse without
experiencing a sort of dread that I may be setting out on that last mysterious
journey which all of us must take sooner or later, and I never come back in
safety from a horseback trip without thinking of my latter end for two or three
days afterward.
- quoted in Mark Twain in Hawaii, Walter Francis Frear
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