From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1931.

From Le Imagini de i Dei de gli Antichi, 1592.

"We know that flying horses don't exist" (Bertrand Russell's Philosophy of Logical Atomism).  (Contrary proof courtesy of the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.)

You've heard that "a horse is a horse, of course, of course."  But here's our explanation of why a racehorse is less like a workhorse than a workhorse is like an ox (as per Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus).  The science of ethology doesn't define a body by species or genus but rather counts affects.  Hence, workhorses and oxen are similar in that they both pull heavy burdens, are dirty, are tethered, move slowly, work long days, and are crucial to farm production.  A racehorse is none of those things: it is unburdened, clean, untethered, can gallop, works short days on the track and not the field, is well-groomed, and wins trophies.  How does all this relate to being one's own cat?  A cat-person is more like a Persian cat than an indoor cat is like an alley cat.  For further explanation, easy tips, and immediate results, see How To Be Your Own Cat.  (And yes, we really did go to all this trouble to justify a tie-in to our book.  That's how important it all is.)

Here's a precursor to Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head, from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1882.

From A la Gloire by Aristide Job Fabre, 1913.

Horse riding follows the Fibonacci sequence, as we see in Plain Home Talk About the Human System by Edward B. Foote, 1896.

From La Cavalerie Françoise et Italienne by Pierre La Noue, 1620.

From La Normandie Romanesque et Merveilleuse by Amélie Bosquet, 1845.

"Army, Marriage, the Church, and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."

—Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

Here's a carousel horse in the wild, from La Carrozza Nella Storia Della Locomozione by Luigi Belloni, 1901.

From John Paul's Book, Moral and Instructive, 1874.

"Morgan Le Fay casts away the scabbard," from Tales of the Round Table by Andrew Lang, 1908.