"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great
language." ~ Martin Buber
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of
animals." ~ Immanual Kant
"My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet." ~ Edith Wharton
"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no
solution." ~ Hazel Nicholson
"The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how
they regard animals" ~ Anonymous
"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous
eyes!" ~ Theophile Gautier
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives
whole." ~ Roger Caras
"There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a
cat." ~ Wesley Bates
"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats
have never forgotten this." ~ Anonymous
"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will
be there long before any of us" ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
"A dog is the only thing on earth that will love
you more than you love yourself." ~ Josh Billings
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul
remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France
"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs
you wanted to." ~ Joe Gores
"A canter is the cure for all evil." ~
Benjamin Disraeli
"Dogs have owners, cats have staff." ~
Anonymous
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that
you are wonderful." ~ Ann Landers
"In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He
gave him the cat" ~ Warren Eckstein
"A house is not a home without a pet." ~ Anonymous
"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by
little, they become its visible soul." ~ Jean Cocteau
"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and
gratitude, then animals are better off than a
lot of humans" ~ James Herriot
"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are
so placid and self-contained,
I stand and look at them long and long."
~ Walt Whitman
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy
licking your face." ~ Ben Williams
"A dog maybe a man's best friend but a horse made
history..." ~ Anonymous
"No heaven will not ever Heaven be;
Unless my cats are there to welcome me."
~ Anonymous
"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in?
I think that is how dogs spend their lives." ~ Sue Murphy
"To err is human,
to forgive, canine" ~ Anonymous
"To err is human, to purr, feline" ~
Robert Byrne
"A horse gallops with his lungs,
Perseveres with his heart,
And wins with his character."
~ Tesio
"A Horse! A Horse! my kingdom for a horse!" ~
Shakespeare
"All of the animals except for man know that the
principle business of life is to enjoy it." ~ Samuel Butler
"You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give
you a look that says, 'My God, you're right!
I never would've thought of that!'" ~ Dave Barry
"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 Lynd
"The dog was created especially for children. He is the
God of frolic." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged
by the way its animals are treated." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike
to him." ~ Rudyard Kipling
"If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain
dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very
few people." ~ James Thurber
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."
~ Samuel Butler
"I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of
cats is infinitely superior." ~ Hippolyte Taine
"Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing
to let him have one" ~ Anonymous
"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought
and joy untroubled" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his
tongue." ~ Anonymous
"The dog represents all that is best in man."
~ Etienne Charlet
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does
not grasp." ~ John Berry
"And God took a handful of southernly wind, blew His breath
over it and created the horse." ~ Bedouin Legend
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average
person." ~ Andrew A. Rooney
"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings
because it has a song." ~ Chinese Proverb
"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get
back to you later." ~ Mary Bly
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions,
they pass no criticisms." ~ George Elliot
"The Trouble with a kitten
is
That
Eventually it becomes a
Cat"
~ Ogden Nash
"The greatest 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
"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better
for it."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you;
but if a cat does the same thing, it is because you lap is warmer." ~
Alfred North Whitehead
"...he will be our friend for always and always and
always." ~ Rudyard Kipling
"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk
much." ~ Thornton Wilder
"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing
herself with me more than I with her." ~
Montaigne
