Pet Quotes

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."

Garrison Keillor

"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."

Ellen Perry Berkeley

"A cat will do what it wants when it wants, and there's not a thing you can do about it."

Frank Perkins

"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger."

Fernand Méry

"The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity."

Comte de Buffon

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

Jeff Valdez

"I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days."

Bill Dana

"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution."

Hazel Nicholson

"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!"

Théophile Gautier

"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat."

Jules Renard

"A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden."

Robert Southey

"The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat."

Ogden Nash

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."

Joseph Wood Krutch

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth."

Jules Verne

"There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat."

Tay Hohoff

"You can not look at a sleeping cat and feel tense."

Jane Pauley

"Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties."

W. L. George

"Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own."

John Dingman

"Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat."

Lillian Johnson

"The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be."

Elizabeth Peters

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

"Horses lend us the wings we lack."

Pam Brown

"All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog."

Charles M. Schulz

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."