Pet Animals Quotes:

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

topic: Spiritual, Nature, True Friend, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

- Theophile Gautier

topic: Heart, Animal, Purity, Pet Animals, Animal Lover

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

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

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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

- Ingrid Newkirk

source: "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

topic: Dog, Pain, Boys, Hunger And Thirst, Animal Cruelty

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

- Rita Rudner

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

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Freedom, Kindness, Compassion, Living Creatures, Animal Testing

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

- Thomas de Quincey

source: Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.168, Delphi Classics

topic: Deep Love, Animal, Breathing, Living Creatures, Pet Animals

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

- W. S. Gilbert

topic: Sports, Gun, Hunting, Hunted, Inspirational Animal

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

- Nora Ephron

topic: Love, Marriage, Pet, Dog Training, Pet Animals

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

- Hippolyte Taine

topic: Cat, Mets, Thinker, Kitties, Cat Love

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

- Joseph Wood Krutch

topic: Nature, Men, Animal, Kindness To Animals, Sportsman

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

- Jean Cocteau

topic: Animal, Pet, Outstanding, Pet Animals

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

- Robert Wilson Lynd

topic: Life, Animal, Men, Inspirational Animal, Bird Watching

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

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

- Haile Selassie

topic: Compassion, Animal, Pet, Inspirational Animal, Pet Animals

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Funny, Horse, Crazy, Equestrian, Pet Animals

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

- Sri Aurobindo

topic: Dog, Philosophical, Cat, Human Will, Animal Cruelty

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

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

- Alice Walker

topic: Animal, Pet, Ignored, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.92, BookBaby

topic: Philosophical, Animal, Squirrels, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

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

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

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Friendship, Food, Animal, Inspirational Animal, Killing Animals

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Peace, Soulmate, Honesty, Inhumanity, Indifference And Apathy

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

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

- Mark Twain

topic: Cute, Religious, Dog, 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

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Cat, Animal, Play, Pet Animals, Pets Cats

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

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

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

- Albert Schweitzer

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

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

- Christopher Morley

topic: Dog, Silly, Appreciate, Spaniels, Specialness

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

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

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Space Race, Inspirational Animal

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Life, Peace, Honesty, Animal Cruelty, Non Violence

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Meaningful, Nature, Compassion, Human Will, Inspirational Animal

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

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

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

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

- Roger Caras

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

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Food, Animal, Meat Consumption, Meat Eating, Killing Animals

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