Pet Quotes - Page 40

• A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

  A. A. Milne

  Funny, Dog, Lions

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• Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Dog, White, House

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• I'm a real pussy cat - with an iron tail.

  Rona Barrett

  Real, Cat, Iron

  "Hollywood’s Rona Barrett: Now A Senior Advocate Dynamo" by Dayna Steele, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2016.

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• No animal admires another animal.

  Blaise Pascal

  Animal, Admire

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• Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Animal, Expression

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.346, Vintage

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• 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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Horse, Animal, Mules

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Stupid, Hate, Crazy

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• Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Reality

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• We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Live Life, Animal

  "Puppy Love: new BBC4 comedy explores the UK's canine compulsion" by Joanna Scanlan & Vicki Pepperdine, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2014.

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• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Dog, Silly, Animal

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

  George Orwell

  Running, Fear, Animal

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

  Anna Sewell

  Kindness, Animal, Men

  Anna Sewell (2011). “Black Beauty: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.51, Penguin

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• There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Gun, Men, Animal

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• It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  God, Art, Kindness

  'The World's Need'

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• The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

  Emile Zola

  Fear, Fate, Animal

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• You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

  Paul McCartney

  Character, Animal, Men

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• A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Honesty, Cat, Emotional

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

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• My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.

  Gwen Cooper

  Children, Philosophy, Personality

  Gwen Cooper (2010). “Homer's Odyssey”, p.15, Random House

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• Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Names, People, Childhood

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 20, 2010

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• When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Running, Dog

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.10, New York Review of Books

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• A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

  Washington Irving

  Dog, Sleep, Lions

  Washington Irving (1862). “Works of Washington Irving”, p.221

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• Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.

  Bob Barker

  Population, Helping, Neutering

  "Biography/ Trade Mark". www.imdb.com.

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• Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything was going splendidly," she later remarked, "until my bosom barked."

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Funny, Dog, Travel

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• A Chihuahua. They're good. If you lose one, just empty out your purse.

  Jean Carroll

  Funny, Dog, Purses

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