No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich. — Louis Sabin
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. — Roger Caras
A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life. — Bob Barker
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness. — Marjorie Garber
No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has. — Will Rogers
I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it. — Kirsty Gallacher
Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation. — Ingrid Newkirk
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 Armand Montapert
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
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer. — Dean Koontz
No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned by a dog. — Gene Hill
No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes. — Gene Hill
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz
I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young. — John Brown
Short Owning A Pet Quotes
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. — Joe Gores
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. — Anatole France
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished. — Dean Koontz
There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around. — Dick Dale
If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. — Andy Rooney
A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad. — Robert Wagner
A house is not a home until it has a dog. — Gerald Durrell
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift. — Konrad Lorenz
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. — Kinky Friedman
Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back. — Andy Biersack
Owning A Pet Image Quotes
Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much. — Will Cuppy
When it is too hard to look back, and you are afraid to look ahead... Look beside you. I'll always be there.
Owning A Dog Quotes
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. — Sri Aurobindo
Sometimes, if you're lucky, someone comes into your life who'll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who's tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones. — Snoop Dogg
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. — Orhan Pamuk
I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend! — John Candy
A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by it's own farts — Frank Skinner
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. — Ellen Perry
The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble. — Barry Hannah
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives. — John Galsworthy
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. — Mark Twain
Pet Animals Quotes
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. — Mahatma Gandhi
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. — Mark Twain
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Success is never owned, it is rented and the rent is due every day.
A wonderful bird is a pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week;
But I'm damned if I see how the helican. — Dixon Lanier Merritt
My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts. — John the Apostle
Be the person your dog thinks you are.
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. — John Muir
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay. — E. O. Wilson
I've been a big advocate of adopt-don't-shop. — Joe Gatto
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog. — Charles M. Schulz
Having A Dog Quotes
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. — Marie Corelli
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
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different. — Ralph Boston
My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. — Mark Twain
I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship. — Mark Hamill
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car. — Tom Waits
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. — Abraham Lincoln
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big. — Erica Jong
I was at home with my family and have a house full of puppies, and my cousin mentioned that with all the stories I have about my dogs, it might be a cool opportunity to make a memoir of sorts. — Joe Gatto
I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat. — Theresa May
A dog is the only creature on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference. — Charlotte Gray
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs. — Brian P. Cleary
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? — Eleanor Porter
I can't imagine my life without animals. I have two dogs and three cats. Coming home and finding them all lined up at the door waiting for me has got to be one of the sweetest joys of my life. — Halle Berry
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets. — Kinky Friedman
Great Pet Quotes
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish — Chevy Chase
There is no death, only a change of worlds. — Chief Seattle
The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind — Theodorus Gaza
A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. — John Holmes
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies. — Gene Hill
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. — George Graham Vest
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne — Madame Roland
I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet. — Paul Rudd
Pet Dog Quotes
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud
Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame. — Konrad Lorenz
This dog. Is possibly the dumbest dog in the world. I’ve had him for 2 years since today He’s been my boo ever since. — PewDiePie
You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.
If you make friends with dogs, they can be really cute! — Akira Toriyama
Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching. — Hedy Lamarr
No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last. — Alexander Pope
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals. — Gary Larson
Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have. — Thom Jones
They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal. — Tom Hayden
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier
If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store. — Michael Nutter
Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all. — Marion Woodman
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. — Terry Pratchett
I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease. — Joe Garagiola
Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive. — Jack White
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. — John Grogan
Love is love, whether it goes on two legs or four. — Gwen Cooper
I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date. — Zachary Levi
I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive. — Albert Camus
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time. — Neil Gaiman
I think we all make our own families, whether they're comprised of blood relations or friends. Some people are lucky and love their families. Others aren't. But whom we spend time with is always a choice. Including our pets. — Jane Cleland
I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing. — Enya
If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them. — Pam Brown
Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along. — Charles Bukowski
The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species. — Frans de Waal
Our pets are our family. — Ana Monnar
I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own. — Elizabeth Jennings
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. — Frederick Pollock
There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice. — Billy Collins
We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them. — Gary Paulsen
I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction... And the only customer. — Craig Ferguson
The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around...One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity. — David Hawkins
Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice. — Steve Wozniak
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own. — Albert Schweitzer
No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead. — W. C. Fields
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something) — Mark Twain
Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy? — Anne Lamott
Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man. — J.R. Ward
Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that. — Alison Sweeney
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