"The average dog is a nicer person than the
average person."
-- Andrew A. Rooney
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"There is no snooze button on
a cat who wants breakfast."
- Author unknown
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"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and
gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans"
-- James Herriot
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"If a dog jumps in your lap,
it is because he’s fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing,
it’s because your lap is warmer."
-- Alfred North Whitehead
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All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of
life is to enjoy it.
-- Samuel Butler
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It is difficult to obtain the
friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does
not place its affections thoughtlessly.
-- Theophile Gautier
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In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble,
He gave him the cat.
-- Warren Eckstein
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A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than
yourself.
-- Josh Billings
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"Of all God's creatures there
is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the
cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but
deteriorate the cat."
-- Mark Twain
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"Dogs are our link
to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. 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
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"There are two means of refuge from the misery
of life - music and cats."
-- Albert
Schweitzer
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"The reason a dog has so many friends is that
he wags his tail instead of his tongue."
-- Anonymous
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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you
may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but
he will make a fool of himself also." --Samuel Butler
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"There are no ordinary cats."
-- Colette
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"No one appreciates the very special genius of
your conversation as the dog does."
-- Christopher Morley
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"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's
soul remains unawakened."
-- Anatole
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"Don't accept your dog's
admiration as conclusive evidence that you're wonderful."
-- Ann Landers
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"I've met many thinkers and
many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
-- Hippolyte Taine
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"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed
contempt,
and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."
-- John Steinbeck
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"Cats are the ultimate narcissists.
You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming.
Dogs aren't like this.
A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a
dead fish."
-- James Gorman
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"The
great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him
and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself
too."
--
Samuel Butler
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"When I play with my cat,
who knows whether she is not
amusing herself with me more than I with her."
--
Montaigne
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