Pet Quotes

"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do."

Gregory Maguire

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."

Alice Walker

"Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Albert Einstein

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

Francis of Assisi

"Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children."

Michael Morpurgo

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

Immanuel Kant

"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled."

"Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them."

Elvis Presley

"Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural."

Trisha McCagh

"Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though. That's the problem."

Benjamin Hoff

"The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs."

Alphonse Toussenel

"Dogs are miracles with paws."

Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

"A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his."

John Grogan

"Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong."

W. R. Purche

"The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be."

Konrad Lorenz

"If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life."

Roger Caras

"A dog is a bond between strangers."

John Steinbeck

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

John Steinbeck

"Dogs never lie about love."

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all."

M. Acklam

"Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well."

Bonnie Wilcox

"The old dog barks backward without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup."

Robert Frost

"A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks beside you on crisp autumn days."

Mary Carolyn Davies

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us."