Pet Quotes

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

I don't have any pets, so I get to walk around the house naked. So I'm more free.

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.

My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts.

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

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.

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.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

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.

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.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

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

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

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.

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

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.

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

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.

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

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.

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

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

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.

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?

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

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.

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.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

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.

Dogs are us, only innocent.

I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.

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

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.

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

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!'

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.

I had a little dog and my dog was very small....Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

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.