Great Pet Quotes:

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

- Roger Caras

source: Roger A. Caras (1982). “A Celebration of Dogs”, Crown

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

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

- Aldous Huxley

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

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

- Milan Kundera

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

topic: Letting Go, Dog, Stress, Bulldogs, 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

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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

- Marilyn Monroe

source: "Music for Chameleons (A Beautiful Child)". Book by Truman Capote, 1980.

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

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

- Christopher Morley

topic: Dog, Silly, Appreciate, Spaniels, Specialness

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

- William S. Burroughs

topic: Cat, Pet, Doe, Cat Love, Cat Dog

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

- Andy Rooney

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

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

- Rita Rudner

topic: Dog, Religious, Thinking, Spaniels, Inspirational Dog

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Dog, Pet, Wonderful, Man And Dog, Old Dog

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

topic: Dog, Eye, Thinking, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

- Gene Hill

source: Gene Hill (2013). “A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Dog, Nature, Silly, Bulldogs, Spaniels

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

- Gilda Radner

source: Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dog, Unconditional Love, Thinking, Man And Dog, Bulldogs

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

- Konrad Lorenz

source: Konrad Lorenz (2003). “King Solomon's Ring”, p.111, Routledge

topic: Friendship, Dog, Broken, Inspirational Dog, Lost 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

The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind

- Theodorus Gaza

topic: Dog, Facts, Mankind, Valuable Possessions, Great Pet

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

- Charles de Gaulle

topic: Funny Love, Dog, Men, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

- Lewis Grizzard

topic: Funny, Dog, Attitude, Great Pet

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

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

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

- Josh Billings

topic: Inspirational, Dog, Money, Man And Dog, Wag The Dog

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

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

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

- Roger Caras

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

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

- Will Rogers

topic: Cute, Dog, Sorry, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

- George Graham Vest

source: "Best Speech; Faithful, Even in Death" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.

topic: Dog, Selfish, Ungrateful, Man And Dog, Dog Lover

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

topic: Dog, Pet, Faults, 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

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

- Doris Day

topic: Dog, Companionship, Silent, Inspirational Dog, I Love My Dog

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Loyalty, Dog, Silly, Lost Dog, Dog Lover

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

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

- W. L. George

topic: Cat, Shelter, And Love, Solitary Confinement, Inspirational Cat

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

- Willie Morris

topic: Family, Dog, Brother, Dealing With Death, Sympathy For Loss

Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.

- Louis Sabin

topic: Dog, Home, Animal, Poodle Dogs, Dog Love

when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Courage, Cat, Feelings, Feeling Low, Great Pet

If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge?

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Funny, Dog, Humorous, Great Pet

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

- Madame Roland

topic: Dog, Men, Admire, Man And Dog, I Love My Dog

One cat just leads to another.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Cat, Cat Love, Cat Dog, Cat Eye, Pets Cats

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

- Orlando Aloysius Battista

topic: Dog, People, Reason, Inspirational Dog, Dog Heaven

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.

- Max De Pree

topic: Friendship, Dog, Alliances, Dogs And Life, Canine

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

- Nora Roberts

topic: Inspirational, Dog, Pet, Love My Dog, Dog Love

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Dog, Children, Man And Dog, Bulldogs, Inspirational Dog

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

- Christopher Hitchens

source: Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.16, Da Capo Press

topic: Inspirational, Dog, Cat, Daily Atheist, Cat Food

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

- Fran Lebowitz

topic: Dog, Animal, Pet, Dog Lover, Cat Dog

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Inspirational, Life, Cat, Cat Love, Cat Lover

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

- Miguel de Cervantes

source: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.222

topic: Cat, Play, Expectations, Inspirational Cat, Cat Love

Every dog must have his day.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Success, Dog, Bad Day, Inspirational Dog, Labrador Dogs