Proverb About the Horse

The coming year, 2014, is Year of the Horse in China. So let me introduce some proverb about horse in different country as following:
Chinese Horse Quotes:
- Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
-Chinese Proverb - “Donkey’s lips do not fit onto a horse’s mouth.”
-Chinese Proverb - “A horse cannot gain weight if not fed with extra fodder during the night; a man cannot become wealthy without earnings apart from his regular salaries.”
-Chinese Proverb - “You think you lost your horse? Who knows, he may bring a whole herd back to you someday.”(The story goes that an old man lost his horse. As he was remorsing, the animal returned bringing at his heels a herd more. It is thus regarded as a ‘Blessing in disguise”.)
-Chinese Proverb
“Judge not the horse by his saddle.”
– Chinese Proverb
English Horse Quotes:
- ” A horse made and a wife to make.”
-English Proverb - “A horse may stumble though he have four legs.”
-English Proverb - “Better ride on ass that carries me, than on a horse that throws me.”
-English Proverb - “Gamesters and race-horses never last long.”
-English Proverb - “Look not a gift horse in the mouth.”
-English Proverb - “For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.”
-English Proverb
Arabian Horse Quotes:
- “My treasures do not clink together or glitter; They gleam in the sun and neigh in the night.”
-Arabian Proverb - “I am a prince and you are a prince; who will lead the donkeys?”
-Arabian Proverb - “The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears”.
-Arabian Proverb
Russian Horse Quotes:
- “Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear, and man from all sides.”
-Russian Proverb - “Spring and summer are riding on a piebald mare.”
– Russian Proverb - “It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.”
– Russian proverb
German Horse Quotes:
- “Set a beggar on horseback, and he ‘ll out ride the Devil.”
-German Proverb - “The ass of a King is still but an ass.”
-German proverb
“An ass in Germany is a professor in Rome. ”
-Traditional German Saying
French Horse Quotes:
- “It’s too late to close the stable door after the horse has bolted.”
-French Proverb - “Fools worship mules that carry gold.”
– French Proverb - “Misfortunes come on horseback and depart on foot.”
– French Proverb
Irish Horse Quotes:
- “It is the good horse that draws its own cart.”
-Irish Proverb - “The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.”
– Irish Proverb - “The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey”
– Irish Proverb - “Youth sheds many a skin. The steed does not retain its speed forever.”
-Irish Proverb
Italian Horse Quotes:
- “Trouble rides a fast horse.”
– Italian Proverb - “Flies flock to the lean horse.”
-Italian Proverb
Spanish Horse Quotes:
- “The man who does not love a horse cannot love a woman.”
– Spanish Proverb
“If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.”
– Spanish Proverb
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