Pet Quotes 

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
Joe Gores

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.
Joe Weinstein

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Edward Hoagland

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
Sue Murphy

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Unknown

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
August Strindberg (1849 - 1912), A Madman's Diary, 1895

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000) (Snoopy)

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )

There is no greater gift you can give yourself, than giving your pet the chance to love you one more day.
Robin Tremble

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857

Cats regard people as warm blooded furniture.
Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"


Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)

 

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857

 

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Alice Walker (1944 - ), Living by the Word, 1988

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877


 

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