Quotes about Pets

"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 a man."
-Mark Twain

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
-Charles M. Schulz

"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

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
-George Eliot

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
-Rita Rudner

"Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face."
-Anita Wise

"Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture."
-Jacquelyn Mitchard

"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives."
-Sue Murphy

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

"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."
-Anna Sewell

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves."
-August Strindberg

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

"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to."
-Joe Gores

"It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?"
-Eleanor H. Porter

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
-Robert Benchley

"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

"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

"They weren't feral cats; they were his pets."
-Patricia Schmidt

"People who have lost their pets come to the circle with a picture of their pet and we talk about them, and grieve over them. I believe that it helps."
-Barbara Chamberlain

"We wanted all the pets and owners to feel special."
-Kathy Eckelberry

"We have so many unwanted pets."
-Jamie Turner

"We have a telephone hotline and a website where people can report their pets missing. We get details from them on what kind of animal they have, where they lived, what it looks like and what its name is."
-Susan Klages

"I don't know what they're going to do, but they've got to get this thing out of here. There's so many kids here and there's pets all around the neighborhood and this thing is hungry and it's not going anywhere. Somebody's got to get this thing."
-Nicole Ambrosini

"We are still inspecting, checking records and following leads for any source of this outbreak. We are especially concerned with any outbreak that can be transferred from pets to humans."
-Tommy Irvin

"Other traps say they're non-toxic, but on the back, it says, 'Keep away from children and pets,'."
-David Webster

"Pets can be a real distraction. And the house needs to smell good."
-Jan Popa

"Then they'll start taking pets and lose their fear of people."
-Stan Gehrt