Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.

 ...I heard a neigh.  Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was!  My very heart leaped with delight at the sound.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.  ~Sharon Ralls Lemon

There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse. ~John Lubbock

He knows when you're happy
He knows when you're comfortable
He knows when you're confident
And he always knows when you have carrots.

Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world.  ~Josephine Demott Robinson

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.  ~Beryl Markham

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ~Pam Brown