Pet Quotes

"A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs."

Sarah Thompson

"Who loves me will love my dog also."

Bernard of Clairvaux

"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."

Edward Abbey

"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."

Maurice Maeterlinck

"Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane."

Smiley Blanton

"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog."

Edward Hoagland

"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one?"

Arthur Conan Doyle

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."

Robert Benchley

"Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other."

Robert Benchley

"You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him."

W. Bruce Cameron

"To my mind, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."

"To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."

"Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever."

Karen Davison

"There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog."

Konrad Lorenz

"Folks will know how large your soul is by the way you treat a dog."

Charles F. Doran

"Only my dogs will not betray me."

Maria Callas

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

Ogden Nash

"If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am."

Charles Yu

"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money."

Joe Weinstein

"Cats rule the world."

Jim Davis

"Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other."

Stephen Baker

"A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it."

Jerome K. Jerome

"If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up."

J. A. McIntosh

"A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart."

J. R. Ackerley

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."

Albert Schweitzer