Pet Quotes:
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he’s gone.
Steven Wright
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci
What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
Rodney Dangerfield
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
Rodney Dangerfield
I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
Rodney Dangerfield
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
Rodney Dangerfield
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Unknown
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Emily Dickinson
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein
The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Woodrow Wilson
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Ogden Nash
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Garrison Keillor
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P. J. O’Rourke
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett
I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar.
Demetri Martin
I can’t imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.
Rick Warren
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way
Quentin Tarantino
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
James Thurber
Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
Haile Selassie
The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
Bob Hope
There’s kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don’t pet her for 10 minutes she’ll bother you for six hours.
Scott Adams
One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
Scott Adams
Andrew Weil
Fran LebowitAn animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber
My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don’t know how I would have lived without animals around me. I’m fascinated by them – both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it’s made such a difference in my lifetime.
Betty White
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Cha rles de Gaulle
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Mason Cooley
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
Mason Cooley
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
Mason Cooley
My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.
Edith Wharton
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Jules Verne
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Thornton Wilder
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner
We’ve begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet – so we bought a dog. Well, it’s cheaper, and you get more feet.
Rita Rudner
It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.
Mickey Rivers
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
Oliver Herford
Cats have a scam going – you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that’s the deal.
Eddie Izzard
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
Norman Ralph Augustine
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Jeanette Winterson
I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.
Juliette Lewis
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Southey
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don’t betray each other.
Taylor Caldwell
Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
H. G. Bissinger
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
James Herriot
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
James Herriot
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
James Herriot
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
James Herriot
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman
Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they’ve had their pets spayed or neutered.
Bob Barker
Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis
Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.
Robert Wagner
The cat is a dilettante in fur.
Theophile Gautier
Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
Pam Brown
Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
Rod McKuen
I was a dog in a past life. Really. I’ll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
William H. Macy
There’s a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.
Dick Dale
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it’s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
Emmylou Harris
My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
Anna Held
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.
August Strindberg
Just watching my cats can make me happy.
Paula Cole
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!
Anne Tyler
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
Andre Norton
It’s difficult to understand why people don’t realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
Linda Blair
People always joke that ‘dog’ spells ‘god’ backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Linda Blair
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
W. L. George
I’m looking more like my dogs every day – it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.
Christine McVie
Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.
Caroline Knapp
I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He’s not just a cat, he’s my friend.
Tracey Emin
I love cats.
Dick Van Patten
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
James Cromwell
We have three cats. It’s like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
Ron Reagan
Dogs are my favorite people.
Richard Dean Anderson
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Nafisa Joseph
Cleveland Amory
Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat’s ear.
NAFISA JOSEPH
Earl Derr Biggers
Many cats are the death of the mouse.
Kaspar Hauser
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.
Bill Dana
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine
Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
Martha Scott
Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin
I’d say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they’re meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
Karl Pilkington
My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It’s in the apartment somewhere.
Steven Wright
When I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.
Steven Wright
A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?
Stephen Hawking
For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
Eckhart Tolle
I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
Jimi Hendrix
My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
Ron White
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
Chuck Palahniuk
It’s a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That’s why it’s a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.
Betty White
For me, it’s always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max.
Future
I’m scared to death of being poor. It’s like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It’s my pet paranoia.
Cher
I had a PET scan, and it was cleared. Not one cell of cancer after three rounds of chemo. But I still had seven more just for safety, which was stupid. I should have just worked on therapy.
Abby Lee Miller
I’m always gonna do my own thing. I wanna be something – whether I’m 19 years old working at a pet store, or I’m 19 years old with a No. 1 record – I wanna be the biggest I can be to my crowd, no matter what my crowd is.
Danielle Bregoli
Humor and laughter – not necessarily derogatory derision – are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously – for fear of dying of boredom.
Marcel Duchamp
My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
Billy Connolly
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
Herbert Spencer
I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
Ziggy Marley
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz
I have a pet goat.
Ryan Holiday
My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They’re loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, ‘The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.’ Funny thought.
Brendon Urie
I believe giving pets ‘people food,’ while tempting, is generally frowned upon. As a pet owner you want to prioritize your animal’s health over the entertainment value in watching your little guy bat around a small piece of chicken.
Aesop Rock
Where I go, rap goes. Rap is like my dog; it’s like my little pet. And where I go, I lead my little pet with me.
KRS-One
Like most people, I have several pet subjects – that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don’t get me started on happiness, or habits, or children’s literature, or Winston Churchill, unless you really want to talk about it.
Gretchen Rubin
Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher’s pet, know-it-all type.
Gretchen Rubin