Pet Quotes - Page 4

• Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

  Shelley Morrison

  Children, Animal, Puppy

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Animal

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

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• A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Education

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• My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.

  Fred Rogers

  Mother, Dog, Children

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• Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

  Robert Breault

  Heart, Animal, Giving

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• ...he will be our friend for always and always and always.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Animal, Puppy

  Rudyard Kipling (2005). “The Complete Children's Short Stories”, p.356, Wordsworth Editions

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• The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Friendship, Dog, Responsibility

  Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson (2002). “Man Meets Dog”, p.135, Psychology Press

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• I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Friendship, Dog, Baby

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• My dogs are about unconditional love. It's so wonderful to walk in the door from a long day and all they want to do is be loved and to give and give.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Dog, Unconditional Love, Doors

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• If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

  Will Rogers

  Cute, Death, Loyalty

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• Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

  Mason Cooley

  Hate, Cat, Literature

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• If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

  James Thurber

  Dog, Nature, Animal

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• We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

  Ron Reagan

  Children, Cat, Gambling

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• I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Life, Leadership

  Speech at the Reform Club, April 28, 1981.

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• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

  Milan Kundera

  Letting Go, Dog, Stress

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

  Jim Davis

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

  Henry George

  Philosophy, Men, Animal

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

  Rita Rudner

  Dog, Witty, Religious

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• People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

  August Strindberg

  Funny, Dog, Humor

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• Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Joy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.906, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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

  Haile Selassie

  Animal, Compassion, Wicked

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• Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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  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

  Funny, Dog, Mean

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

  Joe Gores

  Dog, Mean, Animal

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