1.
Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
Francis of Assisi
Enquire of the creatures and they will divulge to you the splendour of this globe.
2.
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.
Konrad Lorenz
The steadfastness of a canine is an invaluable blessing.
3.
I don't have any pets, so I get to walk around the house naked. So I'm more free.
Brendon Urie
I don't possess any animals, therefore I am able to saunter about the residence in my birthday suit. Thus affording me greater liberty.
4.
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
Paris Hilton
5.
My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts.
John the Apostle
7.
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.
Theresa May
8.
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
Charles M. Schulz
10.
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.
Ralph Boston
11.
I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.
Tom Felton
12.
Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.
Henry Bergh
13.
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
Jacques Derrida
15.
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
Alexander Theroux
16.
We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'
K. D. Lang
17.
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
T. Casey Brennan
18.
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
Haile Selassie
19.
He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.
Stella Gibbons
20.
The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
Bob Hope
21.
My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.
Steven Wright
22.
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.
Harry S. Truman
23.
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
24.
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
Laura Mennell
25.
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
W. L. George
26.
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Rue McClanahan
27.
You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.
Cassandra Clare
28.
Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?
J. K. Rowling
30.
I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
Cher
31.
I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
William H. Macy
32.
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
Murray Banks
33.
How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
35.
I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.
Dana Burnet
36.
Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.
Michelle Malkin
37.
I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.
Katie Holmes
38.
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
Eleanor Porter
39.
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
Joseph Wood Krutch
40.
When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.
Sara Paretsky
41.
I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.
Christine McVie
43.
Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
Ian Dunbar
44.
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.
Ingrid Newkirk
45.
Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.
Bill Burr
46.
I had a little dog and my dog was very small....Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.
Francis Cornford
47.
Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
Pam Brown
49.
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.
Amy Sedaris
50.
Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
Ingrid Newkirk