"A ragged colt may make a good horse."
- French Proverb

A fine little smooth horse colt,
Should move a man as much as doth a son.
-Thomas Kyd

The Arabian stallion is magnificent, and the mare quite glamorous, but the airy-fairy foal is so delicate and fawn-like, he steals your heart away!
- Gladys Brown Edwards, "Know the Arabian Horse"

"The raggy colt often made a powerful horse."
- Irish Proverb

"Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The horses prance and paw and neigh, Fillies and colts like kittens play...
- Oliver W. Homes

A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can.
- French Proverb

The old mare watched the tractor work
A thing of rubber and steel,
Ready to follow the slightest wish
Of the man who held the wheel.
She said to herself as it passed by,
You gave me an awful jolt
But there's still one thing you cannot do,
You cannot raise a colt.
- Source unknown

What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age. - French Proverb

" And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples, / And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him." - The Bible

"A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter."
- French Proverb

Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship, improving the manners and carriage, But the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible thorn-bit of marriage"
Rudyard Kipling

Up staggered the foal,
its hooves were jelly-knots of foam.
Then day sniffed with its blue nose
through the open stable window, and found them--
the foal nuzzling its mother,
velvet fumbling for her milk.
- Ferenc Juhasz, Hungarian poet

Men are generally more concered with the breeding of their horses than their children. - William Penn


"No breeder ever committed suicide before foaling season!" - unknown

The mare and her foal inhabit the same tent with the Bedouin and his children. The neck of the mare is often the pillow of the rider, and, more frequently, of the children, who are rolling about upon her and the foal: yet no accident ever occurs, and the animal acquires that friendship and love for man which occaisonal ill-treatment will not cause him for a moment to forget." from "The Horse: With a treatise of draugh and a copious index" by William Youatt
Published in 1831

"Many a happy colt makes a fine horse" - Proverb, Uknown Origin