"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe anything simply because it is found written in books. Do not believe anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conductive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."

Buddha

"Our gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark."

Chief Joseph

"The horse has so docile a nature, that he would always rather do right than wrong, if he could only be taught to distinguish one from the other."

George Melville (1821-1878)

"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights, which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may one day come to be recognized that the number of the legs, the velocity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate."

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Om jag hade en vän, en enda vän
och denne ende slog ett värnlöst djur
och gav sin hand, som nyss med värmen ur
min själ jag tryckt och velat trycka än,
jag toge aldrig denna hand igen.

Och låg han sjuk, den vän, som nänts att slå
ett värnlöst djur, och låg han törstig då,
när vid hans säng jag satt den sista natten,
jag skulle råga glaset fullt med vatten
och dricka det i botten själv och gå.

Ur Ensamhetens Tankar av Verner von Heidenstam

"He knows when you're happy
He knows when you're comfortable
He knows when you're confident
and he always knows when you have carrots."

Author unknown

"Feeling down? Saddle up!"

Author unknown

"Man kan inte lösa ett problem med samma tankegångar som skapat det."

Albert Einstein

"Horse thou art truly a creature
without equal, for thou fliest
without sword."

The Koran

"Cha chòir an t-each glan a chur uige." (The willing horse should not be spurred.)

Old gaelic proverb

"Kom ihåg, säger den [stämman], att för hvad du fått dig anförtrodt, bör och skall du också svara, minns alltid, att denna stackars häst, som du så tanklöst misshandlar, i dig ser sin hela försyn, blickar upp till dig med samma fruktan eller tillförsigt, som du till all rättvisas, all nåds och kärleks källa. Vill du då, vågar du ens förneka honom en liten smula af den barmhertighet, du sjelf icke ett ögonblick kan undvara, och som i så oändligt rikt mått kommer dig till del? Nej, så otacksam, så låg kan du icke vara. Visa barmhertighet mot din häst, så visst som du sjelf vill och måste göra anspråk derpå."

Ur Hästens Vård och Behandling från Djurvänlig Synpunkt, prisbelönt af Sv. Allm. Djurskyddsföreningen, av John Wennerholm 1887

"There is no condition that a horse's hoof can suffer that a shoe
cannot make worse."

Paul Chapman

"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding."

J. Bronowski (1965)

Ur Moseman's Illustrated Guide for Purchasers of Horse Furnishing Goods, Novelties and Stable Appointments år 1892

"The problem is not the problem, it is the perception of the problem, and the solution is always found in the action."

Robert Zink

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds."

Albert Einstein