"What a long night is this! I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns. Ca, ha! He bounds from the earth, as if his entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus, qui a les narines de feu! When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. He trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes."

"He is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him. He is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts."

"Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs, Piercing the night's dull ear."

"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath."

"And Duncan's horses,—a thing most strange and certain,— Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race, Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make War with mankind."

"He doth nothing but talk of his horse."

"An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind."

"For young hot colts being rag'd, do rage the more."

"Give me another horse: bind up my wounds."

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"

"Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide: Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back."

"I saw them go; one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet."

"There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse."

"Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?"

"Equo ne credite, Teucri Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis"

"Quadrupedumque putrem cursu quatit ungula campum."

"The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib."

"He shall be buried with the burial of an ass."

"Nasrudin, your donkey has been lost." "Thank goodness I was not on the donkey at the time, or I would be lost too."

"And when you hear the braying of a donkey, seek refuge with Allah from Satan for [its braying indicates] that it has seen a Satan."

"A wilful plough-ox should be put back in the track, a balking ass should be made to take the straight path."

"ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota, the Senator, and everywhere the Donkey. The animal is widely and variously celebrated in the literature, art and religion of every age and country; no other so engages and fires the human imagination as this noble vertebrate. Indeed, it is doubted by some (Ramasilus, lib. II., De Clem., and C. Stantatus, De Temperamente) if it is not a god; and as such we know it was worshiped by the Etruscans, and, if we may believe Macrobious, by the Cupasians also. Of the only two animals admitted into the Mahometan Paradise along with the souls of men, the ass that carried Balaam is one, the dog of the Seven Sleepers the other. This is no small distinction. From what has been written about this beast might be compiled a library of great splendor and magnitude, rivalling that of the Shakespearean cult, and that which clusters about the Bible. It may be said, generally, that all literature is more or less Asinine."

"Poor little foal of an oppressèd race! I love the languid patience of thy face."

"John Trott was desired by two witty peers To tell them the reason why asses had ears. "An 't please you," quoth John, "I'm not given to letters; Nor dare I pretend to know more than my betters: Howe'er, from this time I shall ne'er see your graces, As I hope to be saved! without thinking on asses.""

"Alex, do not interrupt me when I'm daydreaming. If a zebra's in the zone, leave him alone."

"Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!"

"When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras."

"The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat."