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