Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back. — Andy Biersack
Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille. — Ava Gardner
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
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
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. — Oliver Herford
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
The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man. — Robertson Davies
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything. — Paris Hilton
All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead. — Noel Fielding
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. — George Eliot
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat. — Agnes Varda
Short Pet Quotes
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift. — Konrad Lorenz
Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth. — Francis of Assisi
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish — Chevy Chase
Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame. — Konrad Lorenz
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. — Mark Twain
There is no death, only a change of worlds. — Chief Seattle
What greater gift than the love of a cat. — Charles Dickens
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. — William S. Burroughs
I've been a big advocate of adopt-don't-shop. — Joe Gatto
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Pet Image Quotes
A house is not a home until it has a dog. — Gerald Durrell
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. — Billy Graham
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. — Haile Selassie
When it is too hard to look back, and you are afraid to look ahead... Look beside you. I'll always be there.
Lost Pet Quotes
My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. — Steven Wright
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
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it. — Amy Sedaris
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned by a dog. — Gene Hill
I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months. — Mary Tyler Moore
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die. — Mary Elizabeth Frye
Be the person your dog thinks you are.
Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in. — Arthur Guiterman
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. — Henry Ward Beecher
No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild. — Christopher McCandless
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. — Eckhart Tolle
Losing A Pet Quotes
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. — Cher
A good way to lose weight is to put salt on your ass and go to a petting zoo. But stay away from goats because I've seen them fornicate with a mail box. — Sayings
A Chihuahua. They're good. If you lose one, just empty out your purse. — Jean Carroll
My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time? — Walter Scott
I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me; it felt disloyal. — Robert Crais
Death Of A Pet Quotes
Death ends a life, not a relationship. — Jack Lemmon
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell. — Emily Dickinson
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are. — Henry Scott Holland
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master. — Ben Hur Lampman
If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death. — Tim Burton
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death. — Milan Kundera
A dog is the only creature on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. — Rudyard Kipling
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. — Joanna Lumley
Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it. — William Shakespeare
Cute Pet 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
If you make friends with dogs, they can be really cute! — Akira Toriyama
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine
When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated. — Sara Paretsky
...he will be our friend for always and always and always. — Rudyard Kipling
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished. — Dean Koontz
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. — Jules Renard
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense. — Agnes Repplier
Everything I know, I learned from dogs. — Nora Roberts
Loss Of A Pet Quotes
Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have. — Thom Jones
A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life. — Bob Barker
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
You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me? — Walter Scott
He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant. — Gene Hill
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. — Rudyard Kipling
My nights are for overthinking, my mornings are for oversleeping.
Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. — Dean Koontz
We had a dog, Apples. He was 13 years old, toothless, blind and had the worst breath this side of Jabba the Hut. But he was the sweetest dog, and I cried and cried when he died. — Marlee Matlin
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
Pet 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
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
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
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind. — Henry Bergh
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
At one point, I had close to 100 birds. — Akira Toriyama
We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?' — K. D. Lang
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself. — T. Casey Brennan
Pet Loss Quotes
No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last. — Alexander Pope
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. — Orhan Pamuk
To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman. — Hermione Gingold
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
It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being - closer than our own breathing - and our soul will suffer when they are gone. — Gary A. Kowalski
A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way. — Mary Carolyn Davies
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions. — Gerald Lawson Sittser
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity! — Thomas Hardy
Owning A Pet Quotes
Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much. — Will Cuppy
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. — Joe Gores
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. — Ellen Perry
No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich. — Louis Sabin
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
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
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
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
Pet Food Quotes
You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me. — Cassandra Clare
We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes. — Rachael Ray
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. — Leo Tolstoy
Cat food. It stinks a bit, but if you don't put up with the smell, the little kitten will die. — Karl Pilkington
If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Went to the grocery store, got everything on my list and went up to the checkout. I put a bag of pet food for our rabbit on the conveyor. The girl looked at me and said, Do you have a rabbit? I looked at here and said deadpan, Nope. Just like 'em 'cause they're crunchy. Here's your sign. — Bill Engvall
Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there? — Chelsea Handler
Hey! You can be more than just a car company. You can be more than just a pet food company. You can aspire to loving dogs, rather than just feeding dogs. — Lee Clow
I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed. — Laurie Colwin
Pet Names Quotes
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. — Alexander Theroux
I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys. — Chris Pratt
I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix. — Carrie Ann Inaba
I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War. — Kurt Vonnegut
My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing. — Vince Vaughn
Call me names, dearest! Call me thy bird
That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word,
That folds its wild wings there, ne'er dreaming of flight,
That tenderly sings there in loving delight!
Oh! my sad heart keeps pining for one fond word,--
Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird! — Frances Sargent Osgood
a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness. — Constance Fenimore Woolson
People who really appreciated animals always asked their names. — Lilian Jackson Braun
Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is no way you would ever pet it. 3. It does not respond to simple commands such as "Here, boy!" — Dave Barry
[T]he nags ... the national association of gals, that's our pet name for the NOW gang ... the nags are a bunch of whores to liberalism. — Rush Limbaugh
Pet Peeve Quotes
I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine. — Katie Holmes
That is so personal, and it’s my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it’s always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney? — Zooey Deschanel
My biggest pet peeve is when a girl says, "I'm not into drama." Why are you even mentioning it?! That's dramatic in itself! — Chris D'Elia
My biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people. — Trista Sutter
Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist. — Lena Dunham
I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation. — Whoopi Goldberg
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
Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine. — Tabatha Coffey
Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle. — Jerry Spinelli
Individual grievances and pet peeves have got to go by the wayside. Generally, you don't have to worry about the guys who are playing every day, it's the guys who are sitting on the bench that are the ones that get needles in their pants. — Walter Alston
Cat Quotes
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? — Steven Wright
Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet. — Unknown Author
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
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde
Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.' — Al Capone
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come. — Maya Angelou
Time spent with cats is never wasted. — Sigmund Freud
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. — Confucius
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. — Groucho Marx
No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat. — Deng Xiaoping
Great Pet Quotes
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
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
They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. — Jerome K. Jerome
A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that! — Dave Barry
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. — Dick Gregory
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. — Voltaire
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
A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal. — George Lincoln Rockwell
I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay. — Dana Delany
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
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. — Konrad Lorenz
My grief lies all within,
And these external manners of lament
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
That swells with silence in the tortured soul. — William Shakespeare
I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now. — Tom Felton
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