| 191. | Horse people are stable people.
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| 192. | Riding is really pretty easy. All you have to do is sit straight, look up, carry your hands, put your heels down, squeeze in your leg, keep your chin up, your butt back, and LOOK GOOD DOING IT!!!!!!!!!!!
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| 193. | When you can recite the name of every horse at the riding school where you ride in alphabetical order-backwards and forwrds, then you know that you are truly horse-mad!
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| 194. | That horse goes so quietly he doesn't even leave footprints!
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| 195. | Adults - When you can no longer bend down to touch your toes whilst trotting, it is then you begin to realise you are not quite as youthful as you think!
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| 196. | But there is one rule inviolably observed above all others; that is, never approach a horse in a passion; for anger never thinks of consequences, and forces us to do what we afterwards repent.
- Xenophon
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| 197. | Most persons do not ride; they are conveyed.
- M.F. McTaggart
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| 198. | In training there is always the tendency to proceed too rapidly, go slowly with careful, cautious steps. Make frequent demands; be content with little; be lavish in rewards.
- General Faverot de Kerbrech
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| 199. | The only approbation a rider should covet is that of his horse.
- E. Beudant
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| 200. | Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer.
- Alois Podhajsky
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