1. A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
2. A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. ~Robert Benchley
3. A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue. ~Unknown
4. A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself. ~Josh Billings
5. A horse gallops with his lungs, Perseveres with his heart, And wins with his character. ~Tesio
6. A Horse! A Horse! my kingdom for a horse! ~Shakespeare
7. A house is not a home without a pet. ~Anonymous
8. All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. ~Samuel Butler
9. An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. ~Martin Buber
10. And God took a handful of southernly wind, blew His breath over it and created the horse. ~Bedouin Legend
11. Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. ~Alfred A. Montapert
12. Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Elliot
13. Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. ~Unknown
14. Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture. ~Jacquelyn Mitchard
15. Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives. ~Sue Murphy
16. Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ~Roger Caras
17. Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. ~Mary Bly
18. Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. ~Dave Barry
19. Dogs have owners, cats have staff. ~Anonymous
20. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~Ann Landers
21. Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one ~Anonymous
22. Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ~W C Fields
23. I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ~Abraham Lincoln
24. I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. ~Mark Twain
25. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ~Sir Winston Churchill
26. I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. ~Jean Cocteau
27. I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. ~Rita Rudner
28. 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
29. If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. ~Woodrow Wilson
30. 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
31. 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
32. If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around. ~Will Rogers
33. 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
34. It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. ~ Cynthia E Varnado
35. It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? ~Eleanor H. Porter
36. Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. ~Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
37. Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
38. My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am. ~Unknown
39. My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet. ~Edith Wharton
40. 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
41. Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. ~Joe Gores
42. One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why. ~Unknown
43. Some people own cats and go on to lead normal lives. ~Unknown
44. The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. ~Andrew A. Rooney
45. The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. ~Thornton Wilder
46. The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. ~John Berry
47. The dog represents all that is best in man. ~Etienne Charlet
48. The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic. ~Henry Ward Beecher
49. 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
50. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ~Mahatma Gandhi
51. The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals ~Anonymous
52. The Trouble with a kitten is
That
Eventually it becomes a
Cat ~Ogden Nash
53. There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~Ben Williams
54. There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. ~Unknown
55. 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
56. They will not go quietly,
the dogs who've shared our lives.
In subtle ways they let us know
their spirit still survives.
Old habits still make us think
we hear barking at the back door.
Or step back when we drop
a tasty morsel on the floor.
Our feet still go around the place
the food dish used to be,
And sometimes, coming home at night,
we miss them terribly.
And although time may bring new friends
and a new dish to fill,
That one place in our hearts
belongs to them...
and always will. ~Unknown
57. Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. ~Anonymous
58. To err is human, to forgive, canine ~Unknown
59. To err is human, to purr, feline ~Robert Byrne
60. Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. ~Anatole France
61. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. ~Immanual Kant
62. When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. ~Montaigne
63. Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! ~Theophile Gautier
64. 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
65. You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us ~Robert Louis Stevenson