Pet Quotes

"No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog."

Stanley Leinwoll

"The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common."

Martin Luther

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."

James Thurber

"My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty."

Elayne Boosler

"Dogs are minor angels."

Jonathan Carroll

"A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense."

Agnes Repplier

"Puppies are nature's remedy for feeling unloved... plus numerous other ailments of life."

Richard Allan Palm

"I am I because my little dog knows me."

Gertrude Stein

"Until you have a dog you don't know what could be eaten."

Mignon McLaughlin

"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

"Even the tiniest Poodle or Chihuahua is still a wolf at heart."

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too."

Samuel Butler

"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."

Mordecai Siegal

"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."

Doug Larson

"I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats."

Eckhart Tolle

"With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?"

Fernand Méry

"A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather."

Judith Merkle Riley

"Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place."

Paul Gray

"Never try to outstubborn a cat."

Robert A. Heinlein

"When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?"

Michel de Montaigne

"The cat is, above all things, a dramatist."

Margaret Benson

"Dogs eat. Cats dine."

Ann Taylor

"If cats could talk, they wouldn't."

Nan Porter

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia."

Joseph Wood Krutch

"Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow."

Monica Edwards