A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.-Josh Billings
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.-James Cromwell
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.-Martin Buber
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.-Roger Caras
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.-Kinky Friedman
Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. – Anatole France
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.-Terry Pratchett
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.-Eliot
Dogs are my favorite people.-Richard Dean Anderson
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.-Jules Verne
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.-Groucho Marx
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.-James Herriot
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.-Ogden Nash
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.-Andy Rooney
There’s a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.-Dick Dale
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. – Albert Schweitzer
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.-Winston Churchill
It’s difficult to understand why people don’t realize that pets are gifts to mankind.-Linda Blair
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.-Quentin Tarantino
You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.-Jane Goodall
Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.-Robert Wagner
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.-Robert A. Heinlein
Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.-Caroline Knapp
My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.-Edith Wharton
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 poured spot remover on my dog. Now he’s gone. – Steven Wright
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.-Milan Kundera
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.-Bill Dana
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.-Charles de Gaulle
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.-Michael Morpurgo
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!-Anne Tyler
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.-Bernard Williams
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.-Immanuel Kant
Never wear anything that panics the cat.-P. J. O’Rourke
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.-W. L. George
Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job. – Franklin P. Jones
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.-Dwight D. Eisenhower
I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He’s not just a cat, he’s my friend.-Tracey Emin
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.-Billy Graham
Just watching my cats can make me happy.-Paula Cole
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don’t betray each other.-Taylor Caldwell
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.-Rita Rudner
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
Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.-Rod McKuen
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.-Emily Dickinson
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. – Garrison Keillor
Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.-H. G. Bissinger
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.-Haile Selassie
Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.-Jim Davis
Cats have a scam going – you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that’s the deal.-Eddie Izzard
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.-August Strindberg
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.-James Herriot
I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.-Nafisa Joseph
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.-Hippolyte Taine
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.-Joseph Wood Krutch
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.-Christopher Morley
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.-Aldous Huxley
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.-Robert Benchley
Cats are very independent animals. They’re very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They’re familiar. They’re obedient. You call a cat, you go, ‘Cat, come here.’ He doesn’t come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They’re very free animals, and I like that.-Antonio Banderas