Pet Quotes

"The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?"

Walter Scott

"Every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them, and every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with a piece of their heart."

Erica Jong

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."

Clifford D. Simak

"A dog wags its tail with its heart."

Martin Buxbaum

"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his."

James Thurber

"The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals."

James Thurber

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."

Emily Dickinson

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

Henry van Dyke

"I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore."

Paul Laurence Dunbar

"A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage."

William Blake

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."

John Berry

"A horse is a thing of such beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor."

Xenophon

"Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it."

John Trotwood Moore

"God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses."

R. B. Cunninghame Graham

"When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air."

"Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life."

James Cromwell

"His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always."

Rudyard Kipling

"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards."

"If you're a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail."

Fran Lebowitz

"Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it."

Rod McKuen

"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk."

Walter Scott

"A home without a cat – and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat – may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

Mark Twain

"There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten."

Jules Champfleury

"In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat."

Warren Eckstein