Cat And Dog Quotes:

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.

- Marva Collins

topic: Dog, Art, Cat, Liberal Arts Education, Liberal Arts

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

- Anne McCaffrey

topic: Dog, Horse, Writing, Cat And Dog, Dog Food

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

- Groucho Marx

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Friendship, Education, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Dog

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

- Anne Tyler

source: Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

topic: Funny, Dog, Mean, I Love My Dog, Long Haul

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

- Jean Cocteau

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cat, Home, Animal, Inspirational Cat, I Love My Dog

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

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Nature, Cat, Garden, Inspirational Cat, Lake Wobegon

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Football, Marathon Runners

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

- Josh Billings

topic: Love, Friendship, Dog, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Wisdom, Peace, Kindness, Human Will, Inspirational Dog

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

- Mark Twain

topic: Funny, Inspiring, Dog, Man And Dog, Prosperous

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

- Alfred North Whitehead

source: Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.183, David R. Godine Publisher

topic: Dog, Cat, Animal, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Cat

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Love, Funny, Music, Music Life, Inspirational Animal

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

- Eleanor Porter

source: Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

topic: Dog, Cat, Pet, Cat And Dog, Faithful Dogs

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

- August Strindberg

topic: Dog, People, Pet, Barking Dogs, Dog Bite

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

- Immanuel Kant

source: "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

topic: Heart, Men, Animal, Man And Dog, Inspirational Animal

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

- Bernard Williams

topic: Happiness, Nature, Inspirational Life, Man And Dog, Spaniels

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

- Jeff Valdez

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dog, Cat, Eight, Inspirational Cat, Stray Dogs

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

- Mark Twain

topic: Cat, Men, Pet, Kitties, Inspirational Cat

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

topic: Dog, Animal, Feet, Inspirational Dog, Loving Dog

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

- Milan Kundera

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Jealousy, Dog, Evil, I Love My Dog, Labrador Dogs

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

- Robertson Davies

topic: Love, Wise, Cat, Kitties, Stray Cats

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

- Eloisa James

topic: Dog, Cat, Animal, Kitties, Inspirational Cat

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.

- Mark Twain

topic: Dog, Cat, Animal, Inspirational Cat, Cat Love

Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers.

- H. P. Lovecraft

source: H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, James Turner (1976). “Selected Letters 1934-1937”, Arkham House Publishers

topic: Dog, Cat, Mind, Cat And Dog, Zoologist

Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.

- Jeff Valdez

topic: Dog, Believe, Cat, Cat And Dog, Cat Dog

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Kitties, Inspirational Cat

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

- Christopher Morley

topic: Dog, Silly, Appreciate, Spaniels, Specialness

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

- Winston Churchill

topic: Funny, Life, Leadership, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Cat

People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.

- Faye Resnick

topic: Hate, Cat, People, Cat And Dog, Cat And Mouse

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

- Roger Caras

topic: Life, Dog, Sorry, Man And Dog, Spaniels

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

- Edward Abbey

topic: Friendship, Dog, Silly, Man And Dog, Cat And Dog

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

- Anatole France

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspiring, Sibling, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Inspirational, Life, Basketball, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Dog, Animal, Men, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

- Ann Landers

topic: Dog, Finding Yourself, Admiration, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspiring, Dog, Cat, Man And Dog, Inspirational Animal

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

source: Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

topic: Dog, Humorous, Personality, Making A Fool Of Yourself, Man And Dog

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Inspirational, Dog, Silly, Niceness, I Love My Dog

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Dog, Heart, Animal, Man And Dog, Inspirational Animal

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

- Robert Benchley

source: Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

topic: Dog, Perseverance, Lying, Man And Dog, I Love My Dog

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

- Harry S. Truman

source: "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Dog, Cat And Dog, Dog Best Friend

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Anniversary, Cat, Humor, Kitties, Inspirational Cat

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

- Mark Twain

topic: Believe, Cat, Intelligent, Cat And Dog, Feline

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

- Robert Breault

topic: Dog, Animal, Differences, Cat And Dog, Cat Dog

Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.

- S. Parkes Cadman

topic: Religious, Dog, Horse, Cat And Dog, Animal Life

If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.

- Ebenezer Elliott

topic: Dog, Cat, Thinking, Cat And Dog

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.

- Ernest Thompson Seton

source: Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.64, BoD – Books on Demand

topic: Dog, Cat, Snow, Cat And Dog

[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Dog, Rain, Cat, Pitchforks, Sunday School

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Dog, Pain, Cat, Atman, Cat And Dog