One may address a member of the Equidae family towards aqueous liquid, but one is incapable of compelling him to quaff.

I'm totally lost here. Gonna have to wait for some help understanding this ...

You can lead a horse to water but can't make him drink. Or, something to that effect.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink

Wow, did we have some timing there!

I love expanded aphorisms

It's such a game trying to remember/figure out what the original saying was

Good one!!

Bad, but hopefully in the spirit of:
Hubris antecedes abrupt surrender to gravitational pull.

Pride goeth before a fall?

you made my brain hurt - thank you. Sometimes my job does not allow me to think, just do...

I'm glad because I made my brain hurt, too. This is my kind of game! Bring 'em on, everyone.