pet quotes

Dogs are my favorite people.

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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

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I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

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Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

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

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

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I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

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Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

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

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Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

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

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No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

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I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

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I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

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I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

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Many cats are the death of the mouse.

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I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

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Peeves do not make very good pets.

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It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

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

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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.

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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.

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Time spent with cats is never wasted.

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A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

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When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

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Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates.

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Properly trained, a man can be a dog's best friend.

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I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

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Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

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The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

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Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

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Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

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We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

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What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

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As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

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I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

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There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

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I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

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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.

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It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

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I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

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Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

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Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

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Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.

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Build a house? exclaimed John. For the Wendy, said Curly. For Wendy? John said, aghast. Why, she is only a girl! That, explained Curly, is why we are her servants.

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A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

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I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.

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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

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I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.

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I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.

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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.

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There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

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We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

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The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.

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Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?

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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.

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I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.

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My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

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I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

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Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

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I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

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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.

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If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

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Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

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There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.

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I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.

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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

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It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

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My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.

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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

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Never wear anything that panics the cat.

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Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

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I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

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Kittens can happen to anyone.

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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

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It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

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I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

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Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

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